Yes, I too am guilty of leafing through the dictionary intent on finding one definition and going far abook in my search. I'm sure I'm not the only one here to get so distracted that I forget the word I came to look up in the first place.

My other vice of referentia is "reading" the Atlas. Mine's an oversize National Geographic that I usually peruse in bed (much to my wife's amusement, God bless her!).