I envy people who view reading a book as a way to kill an afternoon. It usually takes me months to read a book. Part of it is I just don't read that fast, but mostly it's a matter of finding the time to sit down and read. The time that works best is bedtime right before I fall asleep, however, reading puts me to sleep faster than a double shot of melatonin, so I usually end up reading a page, maybe two, before I'm out like a light. At a page a day, you can see that even a magazine could take me all winter to get through.
Writing I do a little better at, though not much. It usually takes a specific challenge like this month, or NaNoWriMo to motivate me. I guess what I'm saying is that I like to read and write, I just wish it wasn't so challenging.