I’m the 2-4 books at a time reader. I read a lot and I read fast. I’m not putting any book down for days. I’m switching between them each day/night.

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Anonymous wrote:So normally I'll have 1 fiction book that I'm reading but I'll read multiple poetry journals / books in between, before I read, at different times of the day etc.

Occasionally I've started a 2nd fiction book before I've finished the first so I''ll normally finish the 2nd and then go back and finish the 1st.

I have a friend who leaves books around the house, she will read one in the kitchen, another in the bathtub, another at bedtime and can juggle the various narratives separately in her head. Quite an accomplishment.

And you remember all the details of book 1 when you return? That’s impressive.

yes that is why I can only do it with 1 though, leave one and come back, not leave 2 or 3 or 4 and come back. Then I'd be totally lost

I like to have 2-4 going at once. I'm a mood reader.

Anonymous wrote:So normally I'll have 1 fiction book that I'm reading but I'll read multiple poetry journals / books in between, before I read, at different times of the day etc.

Occasionally I've started a 2nd fiction book before I've finished the first so I''ll normally finish the 2nd and then go back and finish the 1st.

I have a friend who leaves books around the house, she will read one in the kitchen, another in the bathtub, another at bedtime and can juggle the various narratives separately in her head. Quite an accomplishment.

And you remember all the details of book 1 when you return? That’s impressive.

Fiction/nonfiction or novel/short stories. Depends on what I'm in the mood for.

I have one ebook on my phone for reading on the go, one book on the night stand, one on the coffee table. I prefer to read hardcopies, so I read whichever one is at hand in bed or in the living room. And I read the ebook when I don't have a hard copy around. The ebook is not the same as the hard copies, so 3 books at a time.

I'm trying to catch up on classics, so one book is a classic (just finished Slaughterhouse 5, next is Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier). The other 2 vary between current fiction and non-fiction (currently The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Hamnet).

I always have two books going, once in a while I'll add a third.

Usually one is fiction and one in nonfiction. The third would tend to be a long classic that I read throughout the year (like I read Proust one year).

I love this method because I'm always reading something that I feel "in the mood" to read. I don't worry about if I'm getting to them evenly. I started reading a lot more books over the course of a year when I started reading multiple books at a time.

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Anonymous wrote:I like my nonfiction next to the bed because it sometimes puts me to sleep. I usually have a fiction and nonfiction book going at the same time. I also don’t care if lost interest and don’t finish a book.

Then do you just get rid of it or re-shelf it for another time?

Not that pp but have you got Little Free Libraries in your neighborhood? That's where I put books I am never going to finish

Anonymous wrote:I like my nonfiction next to the bed because it sometimes puts me to sleep. I usually have a fiction and nonfiction book going at the same time. I also don’t care if lost interest and don’t finish a book.

Then do you just get rid of it or re-shelf it for another time?

So normally I'll have 1 fiction book that I'm reading but I'll read multiple poetry journals / books in between, before I read, at different times of the day etc.

Occasionally I've started a 2nd fiction book before I've finished the first so I''ll normally finish the 2nd and then go back and finish the 1st.

I have a friend who leaves books around the house, she will read one in the kitchen, another in the bathtub, another at bedtime and can juggle the various narratives separately in her head. Quite an accomplishment.

Anonymous wrote:I have specific situations when I read each one:

book of essays/something with short chapters = bus book
audiobook = for walks and doing chores around the house
non fiction = before bed (similar reasoning as pp)
non-fiction with longer chapters = dedicated leisure time (take it to a coffee shop or to the park, read on the balcony, etc.)

** fiction with longer chapters

I have specific situations when I read each one:

book of essays/something with short chapters = bus book
audiobook = for walks and doing chores around the house
non fiction = before bed (similar reasoning as pp)
non-fiction with longer chapters = dedicated leisure time (take it to a coffee shop or to the park, read on the balcony, etc.)

I like my nonfiction next to the bed because it sometimes puts me to sleep. I usually have a fiction and nonfiction book going at the same time. I also don’t care if lost interest and don’t finish a book.

Just whatever I’m in the mood for. I don’t care if I don’t come back to a book.

How do you split your time between them?