Stealing Time for Reading

I read very often. I read while eating, while online, between classes, and while watching television. Because apparently I think my mind can multitask like that.

But I hardly ever just read. Without doing something else, without paying attention to what time it is or what else I should be doing or anything else.

Last night though, I was so tired. I meant to come home and study and watch Friday Night Lights but I was too tired to even get my computer out of its case. I was like well, I'd have to plug it in. And then I'd have to go to Netflix. And I'd have to take all these books off my bed to have a place to put the computer... aw, forget it. So I just curled up among all those books on my bed and, because I was too tired to do anything else but didn't want to go to sleep (it was like eight o'clock) I started reading.

I don't know how long I read for. I know I got up eventually, took a shower, then came back and finished the book.

It was so much fun. I rarely take the time out to just focus on reading without having any other distractions and doing so reminded me of how great reading really is and how much I love it. So often I feel like I should be doing something else, usually schoolwork or my own writing. Honestly one of the reasons I loved reviewing books was because I felt that obligation to reading, like it was something else I had to do instead of feeling like it was taking away from other things.

Without that, I often feel like I'm "stealing time" to read (That said, I do steal a lot of time) and I'd like to get away from that viewpoint. I'd like to be able to devote even a little bit of time to reading without feeling like I should be focusing on something else instead.

What about you? Do you often feel like you should be doing something else with that time you spend reading? Do you tend to multitask read like I do or are you better at focusing on reading and nothing else?