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By next summer, I'll have been reading this book for three years.
Does it mean my reading will start first and may continue more than three years?
Or my reading started two years ago and I'll finish by next summer?

AlpheccaStars · Accepted Answer

SadeeBy next summer, I'll have been reading this book for three years.

Next summer is e.g. July, 2017.
You started reading the book in July 2014.
Today is December 16, 2016.
As of today, you have been reading the book for 2 years and 5 months. (July 2014-December 2016)

By next July, you will have been reading the book for 3 years. (July 2014- July 2017)

It does not tell us when you will finish reading the book, or if you will ever finish it.

One of my book clubs gets together once a month to discuss a difficult philosophy book. We read it together and give our own interpretations and opinions. We started Jacques Derrida's "The Truth in Painting" 2 months ago. We are on page 10. The book has over 400 pages.
By this time next year we will have been reading it for 13 months.

CalifJim · Answer

SadeeBy next summer, I'll have been reading this book for three years.Does it mean my reading will start first and may continue more than three years?

No. If you'll have been reading the book for three years by next summer (less than one year from now), it can't possibly mean that you haven't started yet. You are now probably more than two years into reading the book, so you started more than two years ago.

SadeeOr my reading started two years ago and I'll finish by next summer?

Yes. Like this.

CJ

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