How many books do you read at once?

[The Library Nook]

OK I managed to read Coraline by Neil Gaiman so feel a bit better now:)

[BookBee8]

I never read more than one book at a time.

[chrysalis_stage]

I used to read two books at the same time but i made sure they were not similar in anyway, but lately i concentrate on one book at a time. I dont have enough time to read one let alone more so i feel happier finishing one book faster instead of reading two and feeling they are dragging, although that said i am reading a book and am nearly finished but bought animal farm from the charity shop the other day and thought ah why not its small and read that over two days so took two days away from my original book, back to it now, and i wont read another till its finished, it has my undivided attention, apart from uni work that is

[Kate]

I always have more than one book on the go - I almost have a different book for every room!

[Nollaig]

I've been dragging through Kate Mosse's Labyrinth since christmas. Its a heavy book, its like a padded version of the Da Vinci Code half set hundreds of years ago. Sorta. Thats the general direction of it. Its beautifully written, but its slow reading. Fortunately the plot is easy so far, so I'm a good 100 pages in and steadily moving through when I get sick of my 'current' reading, which won't happen atm admittedly as right now it is The Time Traveller's Wife, which is, in short, epic.

[The Library Nook]

Ah what a shame this moved.

[Kreader]

I try to keep it to one fiction and one non fiction book.

[Rawr]

I know it's bad, but i tend to read several at once >_< it depends on my mood and what kind of tale i want to get into at that particular moment. It involves a lot of re-reading which is annoying, as suddenly i might just decide to go back to another book. Terrible habit!

[Inver]

I have ended up with three on the go a the moment....again:blush:

[Ben]

Usually one at a time, if I don't like it.. I'll move on to another.

[Ceinwenn]

Usually only one at a time for me, too.

[Polly]

I generally only read one book at a time though if were given a book with school I try and read two at once but I don't particually like doing it.

[Lucybird]

Usually only one. But it depends, if I have something more difficult to read or possibly that's 'depressing' then I read something lighter with it, like I am now

[lexiepiper]

Usually one, and if i'm struggling with one then i read another too, but at the moment i'm reading two depressing ones, just because i want too

[Wilde Lily]

Usually one, but many times two.

[BookJumper]

I always find myself starting a book, getting a third of the way in, picking up something else that looks shiny, getting a third of the way into that etc. etc. When I was younger I read so quick it hardly mattered; I could be reading ten books at a time and still finished them all within the week.

 

Sadly now I stop to savour language and such-like, so getting to the end of all the books I juggle proves a struggle. Sometimes by the time I go back to the original first book I need to start it again 'cos if forgotten bits, which is vexing,

[MDR124]

As fiction I read only one at a time, but as non fiction I can read even two at a time. That makes 3 at a time (1 F+ 2 NF). So I answered 2: usually I carry 1 fiction and 1 non fiction.

[busy91]

Physically I can only read one at a time.

 

I'm on 4 books at the moment, 3 I'm reading (2 fiction 1 nonfiction) & one is audio.

 

I have a Kindle so it is much easier to read more than one book at once, since you don't have to carry them around. And when you are tired of reading one book, you just hit a button and go to another.

[Dimitra]

I read one book at a time. I know people who read two or three together because they bore them a little, but me,if it bores me I will either try my best to finish it or abandon it. Books like the one I have in the middle right now it's another story . I pick it up whenever I remember to do so...

[Echo]

Here's how it usually happens for me:

 

I start one book, usually something I've been dying to read or something I just received as part of an Amazon order. I'll get bored with that one, and then start something I've been planning to read for a long time. Then I'll get bored with that one and go back to the original. Then I'll get bored with that one again and start a third book, which I'll read all the way through. Once I've finished the third book, I'll put the other two back on the shelf, completely meaning to finish them soon, but then I'll pick up a totally new book that I've been dying to read, and the cycle starts all over again.

 

So I usually have anywhere between 1 and 3 books going at once.

[bethany725]

Wow.. I'd go nuts!

[Echo]

I am nuts...didn't you know?

[bethany725]

PERFECT response!

[Fionen]

I read one book at a time. Although, I usually have a magazine and manga waiting to be finished. Those are the reading materials I switch between during different moods.

[BookBee8]

Always just the one