Read 'Til You Drop

I don't often have two print books going at the same time. However, I do tend to keep a novel on my Palm for my commute, and a print book on the bedside table for a little bedtime reading. I don't normally have trouble keeping them separate, except for one time when I happened to pic to sf books with very similar themes. I'm also a notoriously slow reader, so I don't have as much turn-over in my reading as other people.

:) I usually read several books at once. I read a few chapters of one, then a few chapters of another. I think the most I've read at once is four books. However, I've noticed that during the summer I tend to only read one or two books at a time. Sometimes, too, I will start a few books, but one will take over.

I tend to read several at once because it depends on what my mood is for a book. There are moments where I want historical fiction, or scifi/fantasy, or romance. I usually end up with six or seven books going at the same time.

I've usually got three going on at once. I keep a lunch hour book in my locker at work. It's usually a fantasy, literary, or nonfiction. Then there's my purse book. The thing I pull out when I'm standing in line, waiting at the doctor's office, sitting in the car (passenger seat, of course!). These run to short story anthologies or e-books on the Palm. I save favorite titles and authors and lighter stuff like romance and mystery for home. Anal retentive much? Probably. *l*

I seem to read for the same things you do, in general. Cool!

I usually have one or two books I'm reading at once, depending on various things...library books are prioritized by due date, then by how much I like them, with unread books occasionally ranking higher than books I've started. So far, when that happens, it's been because the book is so well written that I have trouble reading a particular scene (which usually means it was done right...if it obviously wasn't, I pull the bookmark and put a 'BAD!' sticky on the front cover), so I leave that book until last, and the time pressure of having to return it to whoever I borrowed it from means I finish it within a couple of weeks. Of course, if I own that book, I don't have the time pressure to force me through the scene, so it sits and sits.

Usually, in that case, I'll have no more than two books in progress at once...if I wind up running into something similar in the second book, I pick whicever one is easier to read. I haven't really paid attention to how I read, simply because, except for books I own, I generally have one that's getting all the attention, and one that's been back-burnered for some reason. Books I own...I've got three or four novels that I'm in the middle of, plus rather a lot of non-fiction. Certain things get priority during my free time, and, of late, reading has not been one of them, mostly because I haven't had a comfortable, well-lit place to read...so I'll start whichever book is closest, and then I tidy things up, and another book winds up being the closest, basically.

I have multiple books going at a time, but only because I have a short attention span. I especially tend to be reading several non fiction books at the same time, so that I can pick up whichever one fits my mood.