Reading Multiple Books at Same Time

[CBRetriever]

Currently I'm reading 5 books

Return to Quag Keep = car/out of house book
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century = History and quite long and detailed
Crystal Singer = SF
Ink & Sigil = Fantasy
Random Violence = Mystery

this is typical for me and I try to keep the 3 fiction books on my Kindle distinctly different, though in this case two of them are mysteries (Ink & Sigil is an Urban Fantasy Mystery) so it's easy to switch between them

[Mike]

Never. I can't do it. I have to finish one book before starting another.

[Shomeret]

I rarely read more than one book at a time, but I happen to be doing that now. I borrowed a book from a friend. She has asked me to only read it at home. So I have a travel book as a second read. I actually finished and reviewed my first travel book and have started another one. I've been having less time to read at home these days.

[DivaDiane]

Before the advent of ebooks and audio books I was always a monogamous reader. Now I usually have one of each on the go, but at least one eye-read and one ear-read. I usually have a non-fiction too and poetry, but I can go weeks without reading in those.

[Charlton]

I have to admire people who can read multiple books at a time, I can only read 1 at a time. I don't have the attention span for more than 1 book.

[HuskerDust]

I can to an extent the situation I'm in now is the book I wasn't finished reading. I had to return to the library so I rented another to read in the mean time. Hopefully until I can get rhe book back in 4 weeks to finish I can read the one I have. Only reason to read multiple and keep up with it.

[Marie]

Depends on what kind of mood I am in - I had five going at once within the last two weeks - just finished up three of them. I now I have one book left to read in a haunted trilogy box set and two books left to read in an urban fantasy trilogy. I have at least two books normally going at once - sometimes three - just depends.

The only reason I had five this time was because one was a buddy read and the other two I was wanting to read around Christmas. lol :)

[Parish]

I typically stick to one, maybe two books at a time, but this discussion reminded me of when I was a kid, reading the Warrior cats series, there was a point where I was reading three Warriors books at once! I was in the middle of one of the books in the main story, as well as as a side story sort of spinoff book, which I would alternate for my bedtime reading, and then I was also reading the field guide, which I would take with me to school and read between classes!

[Lars]

I typically have one audiobook and one ebook going, in the pre-corona days when I commuted 4 hours a day, I had an extra audiobook just for commuting, sometimes if a book drags on I put it on back burner, while reading/listening to a couple of more lightweight Novels

[Kandice]

I typically have three books going at once. One audio, one ebook and one physical book. I find that the different formats make it easy to keep the narratives separate and this allows me to "read" wherever I am and whenever I have a few minutes.

[Jeff]

I used to have one in each bathroom, one in my bedroom, and another at work (for breaks and lunchtime). My wife hated that I kept books in the bathrooms! Now I pretty much read one ebook at a time.

[CBRetriever]

Jeff wrote: "I used to have one in each bathroom, one in my bedroom, and another at work (for breaks and lunchtime). My wife hated that I kept books in the bathrooms! Now I pretty much read one ebook at a time."

that's how one of my Kindles ended up taking a dip in the dogs' water dish - the bathroom was the only safe place to give them water due to splashing and slobbering

[Jeff]

CBRetriever wrote: "Jeff wrote: "I used to have one in each bathroom, one in my bedroom, and another at work (for breaks and lunchtime). My wife hated that I kept books in the bathrooms! Now I pretty much read one ebo..."

Sorry to hear that.

[Jacqueline]

Jeff wrote: "I used to have one in each bathroom, one in my bedroom, and another at work (for breaks and lunchtime). My wife hated that I kept books in the bathrooms! Now I pretty much read one ebook at a time."

I always kept "The Day My Bum Went Psycho", "Zombie Bums from Uranus" and "Bumageddon"beside the toilet. Perfect toilet reading :)

[CBRetriever]

Jeff wrote: "Sorry to hear that"

it turned out OK - the rice treatment fixed it and it's still limping along

[Jeff]

Jacqueline wrote: "Jeff wrote: "I used to have one in each bathroom, one in my bedroom, and another at work (for breaks and lunchtime). My wife hated that I kept books in the bathrooms! Now I pretty much read one ebo..."

One of my friends once got me "The Great Big Bathroom Reader" (or something like that) for my birthday.

[Charlton]

Read one at a time, e-book.

[Michelle]

I read two ebooks plus one physical book at the same time, but they're all completely different from each other. That way I don't get confused.

[CBRetriever]

Michelle wrote: "I read two ebooks plus one physical book at the same time, but they're all completely different from each other. That way I don't get confused."

that is the key - normally I have

one sci-fi
one fantasy
one mystery or other non SF&F

going at the same time.

[Leonie]

It depends on the day for me. I'm currently eBooking and listening to the same series dependent on what I'm doing. That way I keep the story going nicely.

Sometimes I listen to one book, while I read another.