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Parallel Reading

Kavitha

Kavitha

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Wonder how many of you comfortably do this..I have a habit of reading a couple of books at a time. Initially I thought I would get the stories/contents all muddled up between the two ;) but then, I managed just fine.

Btw, Happy New Year everyone! :)
 
I've always read more than one at a time. Used to drive my Dad nuts, but I never got the contents mixed up. Sometimes I'll have up to six going; but all different genres. Usually just two or three though. :)
 
Oklahoma said:
I've always read more than one at a time. Used to drive my Dad nuts, but I never got the contents mixed up. Sometimes I'll have up to six going; but all different genres. Usually just two or three though. :)
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Wohoww! Six at a time?! wonder how that would be..should try sometime! :)
 
I do this quite a bit, and I always have. I'm known to read four or more books at the same time. I can't remember the last time I wasn't reading more than one book. At the moment I'm reading three.
 
Kavitha said:


Wohoww! Six at a time?! wonder how that would be..should try sometime! :)
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Actually it's not as hard as it seems. The small book travels with me, large books get read at the table. I keep one upstairs, one downstairs one in the car, one under the pillow...etc. :)
 
I only read two books at a time. When I was younger it used to be as many as five. Then I became busy with work/school and decided that I should cut down the amount of books. Regardless of the amount I read at a time, I don't have problems keeping track of what happened in each book.
 
I have one book to read at school, one in the dining room, one in my room, and (often, but not always) one at the computer. Sometimes a couple more than that, but that's it right now. I already have my one for school all set up for when it restarts.
 
It must be nice when you get to a boring part in one book to be able to switch to another without guilt. Or if you just get tired of a book, especially if it's REALLY long. I think I will try this and see how it works.
 
I do that quite often. I don't feel like continuing reading the nonfiction book I was doing right now, so I moved on to other things temporarily. I'll go back to the Dracula book when I feel like it. I almost always finish books. The only times I haven't have mostly been when I was borrowing them from the library and they requested them back...
 
I used to do this, but I don't anymore. I find that I'm able to focus on the story and the characters better if I read one at a time - I'd probably mix the plots up if I read more than that.
 
I'm usually reading two at once - one that I haven't read before and have to pay attention to (this I read during the day), and one comfort book that I use to read myself to sleep (e.g. King, Bryson, Tolkien, Hornby, Rowling).
 
I always found it difficult to mix up plots. I'm pretty good at keeping them straight for some reason. The plots stay pretty clear for several years in my mind.
 
I really have trouble reading more then one book at a time. I tend to confuse things easily :p
 
I confuse numerical/instructional info very easily, but my memory for storyline info and history and things like that is nearly photographic. It's kind of embarassing that I easily recite the life story of Napoloeon because I watched a special on him two years ago, but I'll walk down the stairs and wind up staring at a door trying to remember why I left the room.
 
I do that a lot. Usually a fiction and a non-fiction. Since books are like life to me (as in I live in them as long as I'm reading, it's great having a very visual mind) I don't confuse them. I remember plots for ages and I confuse things I've read with things I've done.....but hey what's the difference right?
 
ValkyrieRaven88 said:
I confuse numerical/instructional info very easily, but my memory for storyline info and history and things like that is nearly photographic. It's kind of embarassing that I easily recite the life story of Napoloeon because I watched a special on him two years ago, but I'll walk down the stairs and wind up staring at a door trying to remember why I left the room.
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Right with you there. I can remember books I read in elementary school and toys I had before school but I can get lost in a building. Easily. I'm fine if I've seen a map but otherwise....I'm directionally challenged too (still can't always tell my left from right).
 
If you read two or three books that are completely different in genre and fiction/non-fiction, then you're set. As a matter of fact, it's helpful when you are reading a book or two that you're just not that into. I'll read fifty pages of a book and change to another one by the time I'm completely bored and fed up with it for the evening. I did that with Michelle Malkin book quite a bit, I hate her.
 
I usually start with one and add another on the way. Sometimes I might reach 3 or 4, but usually 1 or 2. Sometimes while I'm reading a book, I start another one, finish it and then return to the first one....:rolleyes:
Not to mention my textbooks !
 
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