> And if, at the bottom of Page 50, all you're really interested in is who marries whom, or who the murderer is, then turn to the last page and find out.

Thank God for Wikipedia's plot summaries of books and films.

> there's no way that anyone there will be able to tell (even if they were interested) whether you've really read every page of the book you just returned.

Unless it was a Kindle book, right? :-P