Readers, Do you read multiple books at the same time or just one?  Which do you think is more efficient? ?

drip2021-02-11T15:23:25Z

My reading is for pleasure. I don’t race to complete a book. When I was working I would have a book there to read on breaks and have another book I was reading at home. I prefer to get through one book before going on to another. 

bluebellbkk2021-02-08T11:44:00Z

I don't read for "efficiency". I read for enjoyment, and what I enjoy is having two or three books on the go at one time.
Those books are all very different, though. I have one novel, which I normally read in bed last thing at night (currently Sinclair Lewis's "Main Street"), a non-fiction for reading in the bathroom (at the moment it's "A Place for Everything" by Judith Flanders, a very readable history of filing systems) and something political or "current affairs" related, for reading in the living room.

I almost always have a book in the car too, but it's generally one that I've read a dozen times so it doesn't matter how long the gaps are between readings: I never lose the thread.

Marli2021-02-07T19:56:02Z

I read two: one for study and one for bedtime and on public transit.  Sometimes one is too engaging to put down, so I  read it exclusively.

Reading one at a time would be more efficient, but reading the one for study when I can't concentrate on it is a wasted effort.

------- To Bluebellbkk: I've asked for the latest Flanders book. I am #60 on the holds list. Thanks for mentioning it. Her books are always interesting.

Rosie2021-02-07T19:55:05Z

Just one. At the moment I'm reading a crime fiction one called The Convent by Sarah Sheridan, its actually addictive!

y2021-02-07T18:24:37Z

I normally read one, and keep reading it until it is finished.

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