Yup. I’m working on my third cover-to-cover reading, but I’ve probably read some chapters at least one hundred times.
I’ve never read it cover to cover in order, but I think it’s safe to say that there’s no part of it that I’ve never read (at least once), and some of its books I’ve read many times.
ETA: I’m not sure which of the poll’s options this corresponds to.
I’d read quite a bit of it before I was able to jam that Bassilisk Tooth through its leather cover. It was a pretty close call, let me tell you. 
Never read it, but took a “bible as literature” class in college. One of the text books had side-by-side comparisons of the gospels, which was interesting.
Got it for you.
See if you can find Asimov’s Guide to the Bible. It’s a highly readable summary which gives you the relevant Cliff’s notes and offers some decent (if slightly dated) commentary besides. You’ll breeze right through and come away with some actual retention.
Thanks!
Read through the NT several times. I tried reading the OT but gave up somewhere around Jeremiah, so I’m not sure what to vote for.
For my purposes,for you it means at least cover to cover.
If you’ve read all of it, it doesn’t matter if you’d done it in a planned manner (in order) or as a result of other study/reading methods.
Thanks, I’ll look for that!
Read the whole thing cover-to-cover just once (the Living Bible version). I’ve read portions of both the New and Old Testaments several times and in several different versions, though, because I’m interested in the historical aspect of the Bible and Christianity despite being an atheist.
Is there an audio book version? With Charlton Heston reading the god parts?
Those can be kind of fun, if you happen to read them just when you’re studying genealogy in Social Studies.
The Book of Numbers in the other hand… le yawn! But then, it’s a census, those are much more fun with colored pie charts.
I’ll count myself in the cover to cover, multiple versions. Now, I’ve never picked up the book and read straight through from Genesis to Revelation. However, I’ve listened to the Daily Audio Bible since 2008, which does cover the entire Bible over the course of a year. The podcast switches translations every week, although it does tend to use too many of the dumbed down translations. I think I’ve pretty much read every word in the King James and NRSV Bibles I have at home. The 3 year lectionary covers a lot, but not all, of the entire Bible over a 3 year period.
Cover to cover for me. It was about 30 years ago and it cured me of any lingering tendencies toward Christianity.
Starting at the beginning is a really bad way to read the Bible, truthfully, because while Genesis (aside from the genealogies) and the first part of Exodus can be pretty interesting in a modern translation, it’s quite a slog to get through the next couple of books. That’s where most people can go no further.
Then, if you do manage to get to Joshua, Judges, Ruth and Samuel you’re good but you’ll hit a wall with Chronicles and Kings unless you skip the tedious bits. Books like Psalms and Proverbs are great but they need to be savored a little bit at a time - reading Psalms straight through is like devouring a giant box of chocolates all at once; you’ll hate it by the end unless you pace yourself.
A plan that lets you read the whole Bible in a year or two but has you skipping around to different books (not in order) is probably the easiest way to do it.
Wow. I was kidding, but it makes sense.
I’m not sure if “cover to cover” includes skipping Psalms and lots of paragraphs of begatting, and sometimes skipping the repetitive parts of the New Testament (although I’ve been through them all at least once).
On the other hand, I’m not really at all knowledgeable about the Bible, other than the same stuff most other people know (although I often incorrectly over-attribute what other people know).
I’ve read it straight through a few times but I’ve opened it up thousands of times, and I’m pretty good with helping people find what they’re looking for just by memory. I have read various translations but the only one I’ve read cover-to-cover is the KJV because that’s what I grew up with.