I have a minimum of 5 on the gp at any given time: one each of fiction and nonfiction on both phone and ereader (no overlap) plus a paper book that can be either.
Generally a minimum of three. I generally have two active paperbacks - on fiction one non-fiction - plus either something on my tablet or if I’m doing a lot of travelling for a work I usually have a book of short fiction on the go too. There’s usually several non-fiction books kicking around half-read cos I lost the notion for them that’ll get picked up and put down as the mood takes me. (They might be thematically heavy going or physically a bit unwieldy.)
I find it the ideal form if I'm travelling about, on and off trains, waiting places for indeterminate time periods. I find it easier to read a short story or two in an airport or in a train station, or hotel room of an evening, it's easier to pick it up and put it down and if I loose my place or forget where I'd got to, it's less committment to just re-start that story - and often the tones/genres of the stories will be quite varied so it's lots of different option in one handy package that I can skip about through depending on my mood.
A preference for nonfiction for audio, and also a preference for audio as opposed to eyeball for nonfiction. But I do listen to both fiction and nonfiction.
I should add that I rarely read paper books, but I do on occasion if that's the only way I can get them (or if I already have them).
Polar Vortex: A Family Memoir by Denise Dorrance, who flies home from the UK to take care of her now-demented mother. Graphics beautifully capture mother's fog and confusion.
The Jellyfish by Boum, who rapidly loses her sight and can't quite believe it's happening.
Ginseng Roots by Craig Thompson. Set 100 miles north of my home, Thompson's expressive brushwork captures the weirdness that East Asia prizes Wisconsin ginseng. While showing the hard work of growing up on a farm boxed in by strict fundamentalists, he explores the culture clashes between the growers, buyers, and farm labor.
I don't really have multiple books going. I tend to read them straight through if I have the time and if not in a couple of rounds, in which case a couple of books might overlap, but definitely not five. Consulting multiple books at the same time for research etc. does not feel like the same thing to me.
Very fair! I do tend to do this for fiction, but I've found out the hard way that I retain nothing if I read a nonfiction book straight through. Reference books do not count as "reading" for me either.
I usually just read one at a time. I'm a slow reader, so if I am getting hooked onto a book I'll spend a lot of time with that one, however I have alternated between two books as I pause in the middle of one and go for something else. But usually reading two books at a time (not really at the same time, but just going back and forth between them) is the most I've done.
I'm nowhere near disciplined about it as I used to be. Now it's usually actively reading 1 or 2, with up to a handful on deck waiting for me to return to them.
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I should add that I rarely read paper books, but I do on occasion if that's the only way I can get them (or if I already have them).
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At least four! 96% nonfiction
the only fiction my brain can handle right now is fanfic (ereader or podfic or text-to-speech)
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Polar Vortex: A Family Memoir by Denise Dorrance, who flies home from the UK to take care of her now-demented mother. Graphics beautifully capture mother's fog and confusion.
The Jellyfish by Boum, who rapidly loses her sight and can't quite believe it's happening.
Ginseng Roots by Craig Thompson. Set 100 miles north of my home, Thompson's expressive brushwork captures the weirdness that East Asia prizes Wisconsin ginseng. While showing the hard work of growing up on a farm boxed in by strict fundamentalists, he explores the culture clashes between the growers, buyers, and farm labor.
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I don't really have multiple books going. I tend to read them straight through if I have the time and if not in a couple of rounds, in which case a couple of books might overlap, but definitely not five. Consulting multiple books at the same time for research etc. does not feel like the same thing to me.
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Things that have been waiting too long for me to get back to get recycled into the TBR pile.
Though looking at my Kobo, "up to a handful" was way too optimistic. More like "around a dozen."