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It's really too early for me to say how ebooks will affect my reading habits, so what follows relates to my reading habits BK (Before Kindle). I can have up to about 10 books on the go simultaneously. One is my teeth book -- the one propped by the washbasin which gets read only when I am doing my teeth. I timed myself and a large hardback history book took months to finish because this was how I read it.
Speed of reading can vary depending on content and circumstances. Most fiction drives one forward with narrative momentum, but with NF or poetry I might go back and reread a chunk and think about it before continuing. I might stop to scribble notes. If I read in French, I manage about one-third of my normal speed in English.
I normally expect to finish one new book a week on average. But I may well also be rereading other books within the same time.
With fiction, I normally read straight through or give up altogether. The record, for being given up on the first page, is held jointly by Jeffrey Archer and Dan Brown (I bought paperbacks of both because I was told they were good.)
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