Reading multiple books at once

>>8307206

“I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.” - Virginia Woolf

>>8307238
Fuck that

>>8307206
Same actually. I read one English book and one French or Japanese book at any given time. I open random Epictetus Discourses as well.

Another subdivision I make, is that I can only do one "project" book at a time.

>>8307206

I am currently reading two longer books (an art history textbook and Moby Dick) while reading shorter, easier books and essays in between when I feel like mixing it up. Typically, I am reading one fiction and one non-fiction/philosophy.

>>8307238
I tend to read, it so happens, six books at a time, but what a stupid idea this is

>>8307206
I "read" multiple books at once but typically when this happens I'll suspend reading one until I'm done with the other I started and it'll usually be something quick. Like I read White Noise, Slow Learner, and The Brooklyn Follies from cover to cover while I was in the middle of reading Finnegans Wake.

Though sometimes it works backwards like now I suspended In The Heart of The Heart of The Country after 2 of the stories to read J R, which I'm nearly done with. I might not even get back to In The Heart of The Heart of The Country until after I've finished J R, A Frolic of His Own, and Agapē Agape.

>>8307273

t. plebmax

>>8307307

you are literally doing the same thing. you don't need to agree with the exact wording that woolf uses to convey the sentiment you capricious mope.

I read multiple books at a time and I hate it. I just get so excited to read a new one that I start it up and the rest of them suffer. Takes me a while to get through any book because of this.

I've whittled it down recently though. Just finished two books, in fact, and I think I'm gonna put down another one and get to it later.

I like to have one on my PC, this usually has endnotes/footnotes or graphics or some shit that isn't good for reading on an e-reader. Then I'll have one for my e-reader, and then another for my phone when I can't lug my kobo around. Got through a lot of The Elementary Particles at jury duty a while back thanks to the kobo app.

goddamn i sound like a suburban white kid. whatever, I grab physical books when I can.

As I was putting my books in order on my shelves, I left one intentionally empty so I could fill it up with what I was currently reading and planning to read next. This allows me to keep them on my mind without getting lost in the sea that is my collection. I would say that I am usually reading between 5-10 books at any given time.

This is such a silly "problem" that I cannot take anyone who asks this question seriously.

>>8307206
When you watch television, do you only watch episodes of one show at a time?


I have a book I read when I wake up and two books I read before bed. A chapter in one and then a chapter in the next (or, if there aren't chapters, I just devote a half an hour to one and a half an hour to another.)

>>8307563
>goddamn i sound like a suburban white kid.

What's wrong with being a suburban white kid?

>>8307609
nothing. im a poor white man. just envious of people with money. gonna start reading my first Ligotti today.