If this has been done or is in the wrong forum then im sorry in advance, but im new and dont know my way round fully yet!!! i was just curious how long it took everyone to read HBP? it took me 2 and a half days, and i got moaned at for reading it so quickly! but im sure some of you read it in one day right? and one more question (this might be meant for the book 7 discussion, but i figure kill 2 birds with 1 stone and all that!) how long do you think we will have to wait for the conclusion? another 2 years?

oh well, whats 2 years?!?!

I took me about 3 days to finish the whole thing - i finished at about 5:00 in the evening

Took me a day and half to finish.
As for book #7 J.K.Rowling said in an interview not to expect it coming out for at least 2 years.

It took me about 24 hours ... I'm a fast reader and I had absolutely NOTHING to do that day.

I took me just under 48 hours to finish. On and off all the times for different amounts of time. So..yeah. I was quite suprised how quickly I read it! But i will be reading it much more slowly again soon, I just wanted to get the main story line. Next time I will pay much more atention to detail.

About 8 hours. Gotit at the midnight release. Read the first chapter and a half before going to bed. Got up around noon and started reading. I was done before 9 o'clock..would have finished sooner,butihad to take breaks to walk my dogs, and cook dinner

got the book at 15.00 on saturday but i started reading at 21.00 and finished it at 6.30 not bad for a dutch guy (although í rather read english then dutch)

yeah i read mine in about 8 or 10 hrs, as soon as i got the book, which was early in the post on saturday mornin i jus cudnt put the book down and only stopped for about 40 mins in total before it was finished.

is it definate that we're gona have to wait 2 years for the next book, coz that is faaaaaaaaarr to long!! thats like waiting for this book all ova again!!!

I got it at around 1:00 and finished it around 11:00 . . .
About 8 hours straight reading in there.

I read it in one sitting too, only breaking for visitors and phone calls. Took me all night and I was so tired I was starting to nod off and had to keep re-reading the same parts over and over at times.

JK has said that the 7th book will take atleast two years because she now has two very young kids to dote on. So I guess we are going to have to me patient.

Took me a little over three days since I bought it....I finished at 2 in the morning

I started it at 3pm and finished it at 2.30am (my husband was wondering when I was coming to bed and the wished I hadn't because I started telling him all about what happened )

I think thats not a bad time considering in between I had to get the kids tea and put them to bed.

I have since read the book again, finishing yesterday - I took a bit longer the second time because I was going back and forward comparing things and also reading a bit slower so that I made sure I was taking everything in.

I got it at midnight after being out with my friends, went to a party, came back at 4am and read until 7am, I then got up at 1pm and was finished it by about 7pm-ish.

I have re-read it since, now am starting from the beginning!

It took me about 16 and a half hours to finish it. I only took breaks to eat and use the bathroom. Other than that, I read it straight through. I just couldn't put it down. I refused to sleep until I finished it. It was really good too.

I think it took me about 12 hours to finish it. I started at around 11:00am on Saturday, and read it through the whole day. I ended up finishing it in bed, but I didn't look at the clock.. It was probably 12:00am Sunday morning.

It took me about two days with very lenthy breaks. I read it much faster than I read Order of the Phoenix, it took all summer cause I just couldn't seem to get into it!

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I read it over 3 days which i guess probably adds up to about 9-10 hours. I cant really sit down and read for long periods of time.
I will be re- reading HPB as i was rushing through it to try and get an overall look at what happens in the book . This time like others ill read it alot more slowly and take in everything.

it took me like one dat to read but i went to work and sleptin this period so about 10 hours max

I got my book at 12:12 am at the midngiht release at Barnes and Noble (the green band is awesome). I went home, read the first chapter, then went to bed. Awoke at like 7, read a whole lot, went to the beach. Next day, drove home. About 9 hours of reading there. SO, I finished it at about 9 pm on Sunday.

1 day!!! 10:00 Saturday, to 10:00 Sunday. Oh yeah!

I don't know how many hours exactly it took me. I started on Saturday afternoon and finished yesterday night, but I spent the evenings out and Sunday morning doing things at home. Didn't really count the hours.

Got it Saturday, read it all night long, finished at 2:30, Monday morning.

i started reading it about 1:45am after i ate speghetti...hey i didnt want to get the book messy : )...then read for about 2 hours...i got up and to my amazement my mom told me to clean my room!...so i could only sneak a paragraph or two at a time...then i was in a car for 5 ohurs but could only read for about 3 cause i got carsick (darn it!) and finished about noon on the 17th... about probably 8 hours all together

Seven hours. Then I regretted reading it so fast because now I will have to wait two years for the next book. Oh well. Now I'm reading it again, having had to wait for my brother & mom to finish with my copy before I could start over.

Took me 13 hrs, and my gf 6.


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Just want to remind a couple of you that one-liners remain against the forum rules, no matter how many new members and floods of new topics there are.... we're still on the watch...

Anyway....

Some spoilers below....

Between the note-taking between chapters (yes, I managed to do it, and now I've got an excellent fifteen-page Word document that I wrote up as I read ... I'm quite proud of it!) and the actual reading, the whole process took me a little more than forty-eight hours. It was the first time I read a newly-released HP book in more than a day, and I must say that you have some rather interesting dreams when you stop reading just as the Half-Blood Prince is first mentioned and when Hermione sets a flock of canaries on Ron...

I'll post some pictures from my midnight release party this weekend... I'm away for the week and I haven't got my camera card on me... *grumbles*

I got the Book on Saturday at 10:00 AM and I finished it monday morning..
I did't read constantly though.. Had a few pauses.. some german freinds og ours came by.. a little annoying really.. I was in the middle of the chapter called Elf Tails
The book was interesting and exciting through and through...Best book I have ever read!

It took me about 4 hours and 45 minutes, I went to the midnight party, of course! Best of the series

I started at 8pm on Saturday and finished at 10am on Sun...just in time for work...that was a tough day.

I fell asleep waiting to go over to the bookstore at midnight so I did not get it until around noon the next day. I finished it last night around 11:30pm. So it took me about 60 hours total. I have a full time job where I can't read personal stuff and I had somthing I had to go to with my wife so that slowed me down. My wife is only on pg 200 and it is killing me that I cant talk to her about everything yet!

Got my book just after midnight on friday, went straight to bed then up at 10am sat, started reading through till 11pm.

Up on sun at 10am, got reading finnished book about 1am.

Only had bear essential brakes: total time around 28hrs.

Not bad as I have V.bad dyslexia, but I just could not put the book down (drove my other half up the wall asking him to read words I could not make out) But I got there

I got mine at midnight, stayed up reading until 5, slept until 11 or so (I never sleep very long...when I get to bed at a normal time I'm usually awake at 7 or 8) and finished it in a couple hours after that. I kind of regret it, as the book was gone so fast!

It took me about 2 and a half days with breaks in between. I had to do dishes and my mom was threatening to take the book away if I didn't get them done.

A day, but I got it on Mon, and finished it Tues. night.

I got the book at 12:23 got home at 1.. started reading slept from 4-6 and finished at 10 am... 6 HOURS! i also read the 5th book before noon the day it came out.. i know i'm really fast.. i then proceeded to sleep for 3 hours and read it again before i went to sleep

I finished in about 9 hours. I read it about 3 hours each for the past 3 days.

i've just finished the book, it took me 2 days to read, and i was just wondering how lnog it took for eveyone else to read.

I read it separatley, but if you add it up about the same time give or take, this Im not proud of however, I had promised myself I would take at least a week to read it, enjoy it, but again, as is common with these books, I couldn't let it down the last time

this book had me in a fever pitch of unquenching thirst at every moment. i read it in 24 hours minus the three hour nap i had and 6 hours of work so i actually only took... 16 hours? math isn't my best subject though... i am going to reread it however and i am going to have to force myself to read it much slower so i can absorb every syllable and hope to catch every glimmer of hope for the next (last) book... sob...

It took me around 12 hours straight minus an hour or 2 for meals and a couple phone calls. I pre-ordered it off the net so I didn't recieve it until around 1 on the 16th. I carefully removed the book cover so I wouldn't read the inside (I peeked at the back) and then read for hours.

I finished the book in about a day and a half but I think that I read for about 7-8 hours. I was reading very fast. however, and am going to reread it again slowly.

I was working all day on the saturday and the didn't get home on the sunday until about 10:30, read solidly until about 5:45, but went for a walk and had lunch, etc. in the middle. Probably about 6 hours in total.

Took me less to read OotP, but I had less interuptions then.

Second read took about 12 hours (but had to sleep in the middle of that ) and am just starting my third 'slow/detail' read...

Jeez i know it took me ages... because we went out the night before and I came back home at 5 something in the morning... so i basically had an hour's sleep before getting up and catching a bus to go & line up. By the time i got the book and came home i was sooo tired (due to not having slept for almost 24 hours in a row already) and so throughout the day i found it really hard to focus on the book because i just wanted to sleep so badly. Nonetheless, i continued til about 5am the next day, with, of course, the exception of eating and having to help my mum out because we had people coming over... haha i actually forced my mum to tell the guests i was sick and asleep in my room because they were bringing kids and there was no way i was going to entertain them while my book was lying there on the bed... anyhow, it worked.

I went back and reread #5 first. Started HBP sometime on Monday, finished Tuesday evening....didn't log the time, but also have 5 children. I tend to read fast and when I'm into a book, I cannot do anything else!

I liked this one better than #5...even though this one was "dark" it was not as full of HP's (understandable) aggravations. I did miss the continuation of the DA though.

Well...got it at 3am...didn't want to spoil the surprise so i waited till dawn...went to sleep accidentally and woke up at noon!!started reading then and finished the next day at noon...almost 24hrs!!!

10 hours. a day the second time

I got the book at 11 pm monday morning and read the last page att 00:55 am. so about 14 hours. having breaks for lunch, dinner and stuff...

I am a pretty fast reader and it took me 7 hours to read it over the course of 2 nights. 4 hours the first night and 3 the next i think about 2 1/2 years before book 7 comes out

well got it at 3:00 pm.. had to work. lol..then read until 11:00 went to sleep, got up at 8:00 continued reading to about 3:00 pm again. so all in all i'd say about 15 hours. anyone reading in 8 hours, there is something wrong. how could you possibly read it that quickly. lol