How many books at a time do you read /lit/? I used to read only

>>9668065
One book at a time. Anything else is plebeian

>>9668065
Man I like this picture, feels good seeing them together

I tend to finish 99% of the books I begin, because if I get used to dropping I won't finish anything. Starting few books before you finish them can make you drop very easly. I usually read one book in my native language and one in English. I need long time and effort to finish English so I sometimes read it intermittently with a native.

I don't know any other languages to the level of reading books, sadly. I tend to learn vocabulary by practical usage, like PC, movies and series, but unfortenately nothing catches my eye.

>>9668065

When I was a kid I can remember regularly reading multiple books at a time. At one point I had like four books going at once and I kind of thought about myself "damn..!" But of course this was kid's stuff.

During my 20s I had a long phase of not reading (work) and I felt rather dirty about it. Somewhere around here (on either side of it) I had a phase of just-one-book-at-a-time, but it wasn't productive.

Over the past four years or so I've picked up reading again, and now I'm back into the multiple-books-at-a-time thing. What I've noticed is that when you have more than one going at once, ideas cross-pollenate much more fruitfully and you more rapidly connect the things together, even if at first they appear mostly unrelated.

One novel and maybe a short story collection at the same time. Anything else would be going overboard.

Currently I'm reading a pseudo-social history book, but it's still pretty interesting. I'm, also, starting to learn philosophy, so I'm reading articles about that following the /lit/ philosophy project. I want to add a novel in there, but I'm worried that I might accidentally drop one of my other readings

>>9669192
One fiction another non-fiction. Also, I'll randomly skin through books I've already read to muse on some of the ideas I highlighted during the first read.

>>9668065
2 or 3

Right now I'm reading a novel, a book of poetry, and a philosophy thing