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Follow up to reading more than one book at a time
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Oct 17, 2007 02:13PM

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That and I just prefer to keep my hardcovers at home these days. If I keep a book in my purse, it's always a cheaper paperback so I don't have to worry about damaging it so much. Sometimes I'll get distracted by a new release or an unexpected hold from the library showing up, and I'll read it and put aside one of the other books I was reading.
I used to read 5+ books at the same time, but these days I can't handle that much in my brain.

In my backpack I usually have a book from the local library that I read on my lunch break and whenever I need to go anywhere by bus/subway. This is generally smaller and not so intense books, because they are easier to haul about, can be finished in a shorter time (needs to be returned) and since I can only read relatively short periods at a time; easier to stop and return to.
At home I usually have the books I buy myself and this can be anything both in terms of size and content - however, I usually only read in bed at home.



With non-fiction the picture is completely different. I never read a non-fiction book straight through in one session (even short ones) and I seldom have less than three on the go at a time... and even then I am usually browsing or skimming another 2 or 3 at a minimum concurrently.
By the time one of the "skimming books" gets in to the actual reading process I'll have probably read about 10% of it (random passages throughout the book).
I find that my learning increases as ideas from one good book reverberate off ideas from the others.


I like to devote myself to one novel, really dig in and pay attention to what I am reading. If I pick up two or three, I know I'll lose the plots and characters, and the books may begin to blend together as one....
That would be strange.... I guess depending on what you are reading, that would make a book cooler... But It would only cause me frustation and a lack of interest.... not to mention the nessecary rereading of many pages to regain its train of thought.





