A document reading apparatus has a controller for conveying original documents from a section for loading documents via a section for reading documents to a section on which the documents are stacked, and controlling an operation of reading the documents. The apparatus includes respective sections for reporting apparatus information, detecting a start instruction when reading a document, and counting sheets conveyed to the reading section. If the reading operation is suspended in the event of an error, the controller instructs the reporting section, when resuming the reading operation, to report the loading on the loading section of documents, including already-read documents, the controller subsequently controls conveyance of documents when the detecting section detects the start instruction, to set the conveyance speed of the already-read documents faster than the conveyance speed of subsequent documents on which the reading operation was suspended, based on the number of sheets counted until the suspension.