One of the biggest reasons I procrastinate required reading is because I don't like mixing work and pleasure. I despise anything done for scholastic or academic purposes, but I have to. I've never been good at taking notes, and I don't know how to go about fact checking. Do I fact check every single thing in the book? Do I write notes as a I go? Once the chapter is done? After the book? For instance, if I go reading the whole book and then find after that a lot of the stuff isn't true, I just wasted my time.
I can accept that at least I now know the book is worthless, but I'd rather not have read it at all if it didn't actually give me more info.