Am I the only one who starts more than one book at a time?
Am I the only one who starts more than one book at a time?
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Am I the only one who starts more than one book at a time?
I don’t know if you are the only one, but for my part I can NEVER read two books at the same time… I’d rather put one away for good to start the next one…
Guilty
Eh… No! I have loads on the go. Always!
I often read 2 or 3 at a time. Heavy book club reading, light bedtime reading.
I’m in… what… 15? 16? Books. Something like that.
Shhh! I’m reading!
Impressive
Dedicated, really. Since I was like… what, 4? 5? When reading started, I never wanted it to stop. ?
I usually might begin more than one, but eventually the favorite of the few will dominate and I read the others a bit less.
Read one book on my work commute and another at home but rarely have more than one I’m reading at the same time at home
I’m reading a couple at once. I am very moody and also my attention span is bad so I jump from book to book
this is my case too
No, when I read horror books I have to read another book along with it.
Nope!
Usually have from 3-5 going – a mystery, humor, psycho thriller, nonfiction; moods jump all over the place.
like meal time isn’t it.
No I’m kinda bouncing between two right now. Plus I read a lot of comics too lol
I’ve got “8” books on my currently reading shelf on Goodreads right now, although I’d say I’m really only into half of them right now
Yeah technically there are 5 books in my current spot but in reality I’m just reading the two. Library so the ones I own are kinda on hold.
Nope!
Nope. I read 3 books at the same time. Though all in different genre.
I have to do that as part of a current course (reading certain chapters of set non fiction books each month) and am struggling with it. I’m much more about diving in to a book at the beginning and sticking with that one book until done. I’m having to go back on bits previously read to get myself back into it. And couldn’t do it with fiction. I’d forget the nuances of the plot.
No
Used to read 2 or 3 at a time. Not anymore. Sucks to get old!
No.
That’s the only way I can read!
I have a daytime book (traditional paper) and a nighttime book (my Kindle)!!
Always have two going; sometimes up to four.
I do too
No I always have two on the go especially if one’s a bit hard going.
I have three books and one audiobook started right now.
Nope
No
No. Unusually have two books going, sometimes three. One is always fiction, the other(s) non-fiction, usually in conjunction with something I am studying. So, I am currently taking a Bible class, so I am reading commentaries, histories, and, of course, the Bible itself. But I start most days reading about 50 pages of a novel. But I rarely to never read two novels at the same time, lest I get them mixed up.
I like to have a fiction & nonfiction going at the same time.
Heavens no!
guilty ?
I usually have 3 going but one is the audio book in the car.
I have a minimum of two going, one is always audio, and then there’s usually one or two on my nook and another on my kindle. Like you, mine are spread about. One by my bathroom because I’m addicted to my soaking tub (ask my husband about hot water ?), audiobook on my phone and my nook always travel with me in my purse.
One for reading in bed…one for the living room
I do. LOL
I usually have three–one in my purse, one in the bedroom, and one in the bathroom. (I also read in the tub.)
Nope!!
Sometimes I have two on the go, but it starts to annoy me if it is taking me too long to read a book, so I try not to have more than two on the go at once.
never
Guilty. Right now I’m reading three which isn’t that many for me.
No. I’m reading one on my Kindle at night before bed, one print during the day and one audio if I’m cleaning, running errands, etc.
that’s nice
At least two books – usually a fiction and a nonfiction at a time.
Not alone
No
Sometimes I do but they have to be completely different
I usually have 2-4 going at a time.
Pretty sure I have 2-3 going at one time usually. A mix of types and formats.
I think a mix of formats is as important as a mix of types. I often have one e-book, one audiobook, and one physical book going. It’s easier to keep them all straight when the format is different.
Yes – this! Except I really can’t get into physical books anymore. I usually have an audiobook and a non-fiction & fiction ebook going.
Not at all!
no!
I’m currently trying to read 3 books. So no, you are not the only one. What books are you currently reading?
parallel world- michio kaku
ministry of utmost happyness- arundhoti roy
chacha kahini – sayed mujtaba ali
I do that, once in a blue moon
Oh, no.
No. Have 5 going now.
No, you are not alone. I’m currently reading Villete by Charlotte Bronte (a classic) and Winter in Madrid by C J Sansom (a plain modern fiction novel). It’s because Villette is taking me some time to read, I find it quite heavy (plus I have to keep translating the french, which is littered throughout the book). So I do short bursts of that and longer sessions of the modern novel.
Nope…in the boat with you friend!
Absolutely not! ?
No, I do this as well.
I’m reading 3 right now
I have 5 going
I read several at the same time, but I always start them individually. 🙂
Currently, reading three books.
No!!
Always have two at once.
I keep a different one next to every toilet in the house!
4 at once? (headache)
nope
Always
always
No, I read about a chapter in maybe three to see which one holds my interest and continue with that one. But not always.
I usually read 3 books at a time.
No . I keep one up stairs and one down…lol
Not at all
3, usually.
I never have because I get so involved I can’t leave a book until the end.
I usually have three going, a paper one, an audio one, and an electronic one.
Pretty common.
Guilty!
Nope!
Yes
I have 5 going now or was it 10. Anyway you are not only who does like this.
I read one fictional book, one non-fiction (business related) and one specific knowledge or skill book.
3 books at a time.
I constantly read multiple books. Right now I am reading about 5-all nonfiction
5 on the same genra
I usually have 2-3 books going at any given time
I am the same
It seems like I’m always reading 3!
nope – esp with fiction and non-fiction
I always have 3 or 4 going at the same time.
Nope I’m always reading 2 or 3 now days. ? Different Genres usually.
5 at a time, different genres
Nope right now – Fire and Fury, Alien Question, Atlas Shrugged (again) Dante, and Bastiat’s Law – not counting books for class
No, I read many books at once
I usually have a few books going at once..
Nope if do it all he time!
No. I’ve got 22 going. I’m outta control here.
22?!?!
Yes. That explains why i haven’t completed many lately, LOL.
is it painful.
I have been doing this a lot lately too.
I usually have a different book in each room so it’s waiting when I have a moment to pick up where I left off. Now I tend to make sure they are totally different genres, time periods and locations or I get them mixed up. Last year I was totally muddled up while reading two different mysteries by different authors both set in the UK in the 1940’s and with a housekeeper named Mrs. Peacock.
was the housekeepers name a coincidence?
One on the kindle and one on audio at all times. Keep the genres separate otherwise confusion ensues…for me anyway
multiples: for different moods and energy levels
No …. currently have 16 going:
wow
Definitely not!
thank you
Nope. Reading two now. One at home and one during my bus commute to work.
nope always got two or three on the go at moment short stories by Rex Stout, a murder mystery and Mythos by Stephen Fry
Nope. Had 4 on my night stand at some point. Don’t know how I end up like that
are there any mystery book there?
Not alone.
No
No. I always have an assortment going.
You are not alone…
what r u reading now
@Lingkon, Little Fires Everywhere by Ng, Letterman by Zinoman, Ordinary Grace by Krueger, Mason’s Missing by Teresa Burrell
which one more interesting.
Little Fires Everywhere
thank you
@Lingkon you’re welcome!
One paper, one eBook. At least.
About four on the go. I’ve always done this lol
Lately I’ve got 2 ebooks and an audiobook going for myself, and a real book with one child and an audiobook with another.
I always have 2 or 3 going at once, ebook, physical, and audiobook
nope.. I do with minimum 3
what’s on your reading list?
The da Vinci code, Dozakhnama and Love in the time of cholera
I have read the first and the third one. vinci code was a real page turner. can you tell me, dozakhnama is based on what event?
I do that all the time.
I usually have three going at once. Right now, it’s SPQR, the Truman Capote biography, by Gerald Clark, and This Rock, by Robert Morgan.
I do
No I do the same.
No. I do the same thing!?
I love to!
Nope. Me too
Typically 3, bedroom, living room, car.
No. Nowadays I read two at a time. That used to be three but I don’t have to travel to and from work anymore.