What if when reading Quran, we don't stop at specified places?

I enjoy reading Quran, not because it's been commanded to do so, simple because I'm a technical man and I enjoy learning the amount of wisdom presented in this book. However, there are reading rules, one of which is to stop at specified places. What if I don't follow those rules? What happens? Is it sin? Does it change the meaning because stops act as semantics for separation of parts?