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Length doesn't play a part for me. Some of my favourite novels I can read in an hour or so, others take over a week; it really depends on the novel. I wouldn't want to read a Magnus Mills novel, for example, that was the length of, say Pynchon's Against the Day; and none of Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle trilogy would work if it was as short as, say, Restraint of Beasts.
Having said that, I do remember really begrudging paying full novel price for an Iain M Bannks novella and short story collection!
As far as non-fiction goes the content is more important than the length. I have got a couple of hefty photography tomes, which have rarely been looked at, and several short books covering techniques I actually want to know about which are almost falling apart.
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