Do you ever read more than 1 book at a time?

[K.C.]

I'm really curious about this.

Does anyone do this? Especially reading a Fiction book and a Non-Fiction book at the same time.

Do/Did you find it annoying/rewarding/compromising?

 

[Kala]

I guess it's like watching multiple TV series. However I can't manage it and I always stick to one book at a time as it gets too confusing.

 

[vespertine]

Pretty much always. But it either has to be a non-fiction and a fiction, or I'll stop one novel and read another one full through, and then pick the other one back up.

 

[straightorbroken]

Non fiction on the same subject, absolutely. Fiction, hardly ever.

 

[Indie]

I read about two books a year, when on holiday. So no.

 

[lolly]

Never two novels at the same time. Or at least I may think I am, but in reality I've given up on the first one. I don't think I've ever gone back to a book I stopped reading to start another. Or at least if I have it's been much later and I've restarted it.

I frequently have multiple non fiction titles on the go simultaneously, though.

 

[K.C.]

Pretty much always. But it either has to be a non-fiction and a fiction, or I'll stop one novel and read another one full through, and then pick the other one back up.

This is what I thought. I suspect it's a lot easier to do with Non-Fiction.

 

[Generic Account]

Audiobook and paper book, yes.

 

[SDF]

No

 

[Alla]

I do it often, but with books in different languages only.

 

[RS]

I did this for a while with fiction/non-fiction but it didn’t really work, so now I only read one at a time.

 

[Mats]

I read multiple at a time

 

[Berly]

You could’ve stopped after ‘Do you ever read’ for me

 

[win_the_game]

I’ve started to do this only recently. I read a lot of non-fiction which I find quite easy to dip in and out of.

 

[BoysForSeles]

I only read one at a time. Sometimes I’ll start a second of a different genre and finish that and then return to the one I was on.

I’m like that with tv too. I rarely watch tv but when I do i block watch one thing at a time generally. If I had multiple shows on the go at the same time I’d never complete any of them.

 

[octophone]

No. I have done in the past - if I was reading something heavy with a lot of theory (usually something feminist or psychology based), I would pause with something lighter, maybe a music book like that David Quantick book about The White Album or one of those song-by-song things you can dip in and out of. Not now. My attention span is shot so one book at a time is plenty and I'd rather power on through.

 

[Cerro de Casa]

I am exclusive.

 

[Sheena]

Absolutely not and I don't think I could. Even books that are hard going (like the one I am on at the moment), I have to persevere with before going down a different route, I can't dip in and out at all. It amazes me that people actually can.

 

[Tisch]

I've been dipping in and out of Sherlock Holmes for about three years while reading other stuff on and off, but they're mainly short stories so a bit different.

 

[Mats]

I think I have four books lying by my bed that I take turns on

 

[cwej]

I never read two fiction books at the same time but I can read a non-fiction and a fiction together.