Sounds like you probably get more out of a book than a lot of people do, myself included.

This, absolutely this. If the book is amazing I have to FORCE myself to take breaks otherwise I will just scarf down the story and it will make my brain feel bloated.

Over the summer as I was reading "Project Hail Mary" and by the time I was at the halfway mark I was blasting through the chapters. I had to physically force myself to put down the book and go for a bike ride, just so that I could process everything that was happening.

By taking breaks it really let my brain simmer on the story and characters. I still finished the second half over the course of 2 days, but I took breaks damn it!

I usually try to read a chapter a night before bed but reading the Wheel of Time cured (?) me of that.

Robert Jordan liked loooong chapters.

I always try to finish at least a chapter before I set the book down for any period of time. Mainly because it's easier to jump back into the book when I pick it back up. But you bring up a good point of thinking about it before starting the next chapter. I'm low key doing this every time I put down a book. The main book that really comes to mind that made me stop between each chapter and take a breather or really think about what I had just read was the first Dune book. It's a book I try to reread at least once a year, but damn, that first time it took me forever to finish just because there was always so much to digest and think about.

THIS!!!!

It's funny you brought up Project Hail Mary because I actually did what OP mentioned in the post with that book but Artemis by Andy Weir I FLEW through that book. I absolutely needed to know what happened next. I finished that book in a couple of days. I would always think to myself "maybe I'm reading this too fast" but I just... never put it down.

I do the opposite, once I finish a chapter i take a sneak peek of a paragraph or a line 2-3 chapters ahead like a trailer for upcoming plot.

Oh that's too funny! I just finished "Artemis" a couple of weeks ago. It took me about a week to get to the half-way point, but that is when the murder mystery really ramped up and I just kept reading and reading.

I know that "Artemis" is the weakest of the Andy Weir trilogy of novels, but it's still a fun read. It's like cold pizza with just cheese. Still damn good.

"Discworld enters the chat"

This is a great way to approach reading. In the era of Goodreads I feel like reading, for some people and in some spheres, has become a mindless competition. I'm not sure how much you can actually absorb and take away from a book when you are reading at top speed so you can move onto the next book.

I don't stop every chapter, but I do read slowly, I analyse the book as I'm reading it and if I need to I stop reading to look things up. It really enhances my reading experience and appreciation for the book.

I have recently started to do a variation of this as I wasn't remembering as much as I wanted to from the non-fiction books I was reading. Now, as I am reading, I imagine the words in my head in picture form, like I am there witnessing what I am reading. It has definitely worked so far, and I find myself getting drawn into the book more.

There's a chapter in the last book that is 200 pages long. Just a quick read before bed.