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I tend to do multiple, usually across genres. Currently doing 4: 2 Fantasy(1 audible), a Tom Clancy novel, and some Greek Mythology. The mood affects what I read.
Technical is a bit different, because I don't normally read to completion. It's hard to count those.
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One at a time, non technical novels usually binge read.
likewise TV shows depending on style:
- continuing story style (say High Castle) wait till a season is done and binge watch.
- shows that are distinct episodes like say Twilight Zone - watch weekly. (also short stories)
- distinct episodes but with an underlying/background continuing story also week by week.
last one I mean like say X-files, the 'continuing story' [sub]episodes themselves usually portrayed as happening weeks or months apart.
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Pretty much same as you.
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Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Not only do I only read one book at a time, I only play one video game at a time as well.
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Currently reading a trilogy from Robin Hobb; borrowed the books from a friend, and so far there's two of each book.
"Royal assasin" twice, both English paperbacks. Had one upstairs to read in bed, one downstairs next to the rocking-chair.
"Assasins quest" now, as a Dutch hardcover. It's annoying that they translate names of people and places into Dutch.
Can't read anything else between the stories, as I'd confuse stuff from one book with the other. No idiot box; the biggest advantage of reading is that I don't have to wait for the next episode, and can take a break when I want to. And no commercials in a paperback 
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Most of my reading sends me down another hole … so, yes, hard to "finish" even though I'm always reading. Herman Hess and the Glass Bead Game made me think about building one.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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People can handle watching multiple TV series at once, I don't see why the same couldn't apply to books.
That said, personally I get a lot more out of a (TV) series by binging (that's "binge", not Bing...unlike Google, Bing hasn't yet earned the right to be used as a verb).
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It's been a long time I've been able to read anything (in book format) at all. As I'm getting older, as soon as I'm horizontal I tend to fall asleep. And if I'm sitting in chair that's comfortable enough to want to sit in to read for a while, the same invariably happens.
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dandy72 wrote: People can handle watching multiple TV series at once, I don't see why the same couldn't apply to books.
TV gives you visual anchors that don't exist in books.
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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No visual anchors?
It is an old saying that "The images of a radio play are so much better that those on TV". That holds for books as well.
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I was going to point out roughly the same thing. With books, the "visual anchors" (as Eddy called them) exist, but you get to make them up.
Which is why book-based TV series/movies so often disappoint ("it's nothing like I pictured it"). And going back to a book after seeing a TV series/movies "ruins" it for some people.
In my case, I've seen the Lord of the Rings movies before I ever read the books. It's impossible for me to dissociate the two, and I'm fine with that. Yet I can understand why the Tolkien purists hate the movies. But that's a debate for another time (and place) I won't be part of because I frankly don't care enough).
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I am currently reading three books at once, one is Hut Six by Gordon Welchman - this is in the bathroom and requires a lot of patience and concentration - only available in the bathroom, normally.
I then have two phones with an eReader on each, one private, one for work, with different books open on each - all taken from my private library filled from Amazon et al - some technical (on the work phone), usually in PDF format, the rest in ePub or Mobi format.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I usually stick to one book. Exception: toilet/bathroom reading. There I read something snack-esque, something informational yet light or something containing a factoid per small chapter while everywhere else, I read tends to be a novel or otherwise integrated, requiring continuous attention and that book I stick to until I'm through with it.
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Technical - multiple, in electronic format.
Technical books are just tools of the trade so not bothered about the e-format
Non-technical - one at a time and ALWAYS in paper form - there's just something so tactile about paper print that adds to the enjoyment of the read, so wouldn't dream of reading for enjoyment from an e-reader...
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Leo56 wrote: Non-technical - one at a time and ALWAYS in paper form
I told someone not too long ago that I always wanted paper books for fiction, as they are gateways to other places and times, and you can't get there with an e-book.
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While reading non-technical, I usually end up in some odd position I would other wise not sit/lay/stand in.
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Some of my favorite books that has been in my bookshelf for twenty, thirty or fourty years, I can pull from the shelf to look up a single chapter or passage for rereading by itself. I know the book so well that I've got the context perfectly clear. In no way will this disturb my end-to-end reading of a another novel.
I've got somewhere around 15-20 books that know that well and love that much; I certainly don't handle all books that way.
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Same here. There are some of my books I like so much that I have to ration how often I read them. Heinlein's The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, Niven and Pournelle's Oath of Fealty and Footfall, and C.J. Cherryh's The Faded Sun and Chanur series. I just finished reading Chanur for probably the dozen-th time. It will probably be three or four years before I read it again. I just bought latest volume in Cherryh's Foreigner series. I'm trying to decide if I want to go back and reread the earlier 20 books in the sequence before I read the new one.
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Fiction I read one at a time, mostly at night before I go to bed. If I read again during the day, it's that same book. I had to read multiple works of fiction at the same time in college and I hated it. It's difficult for me to keep story and characters straight, especially if the author like using multiple plot lines and points of view.
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when asked in interviews: yes.
reality: very quick skimming
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What are these 'book' things you mention? 
I'm in the multiple club, but by environment (sample size = 2, so that may not be accurate)
One around the house, one at work during lunchtime.
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I listen to one audiobook at a time, mostly while commuting. Currently Hobb's Liveship Traders series.
For hardback/paperbacks, I was reading the original Gundam light novel, but temporarily set it aside to reread Weker's The Golem and the Jinni for a library book discussion.
I'm usually working on one or two nonfiction books, often as research for writing projects.
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Only one at a time. Its hard to keep track when reading multiple books.
If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
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In my particular case:
I experience the need to read at any given moment more like thirst. Most of the time water will suffice, meaning I could read anything available to me however, like with thirst; sometimes I feel either whisky or soda is the only thing that will quench it, meaning that I HAVE to read either a technical or a fiction book and not the other.
I could also be reading multiple books in parallel, usually either technical or fiction and rarely ever any other genre but which one it is at any given moment depends on that thirst otherwise I find reading non-enjoyable.
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Technical books I general hit different parts of multiple books in a given time-frame.
General Fiction and Non-Fiction, I prefer to read one at a time, and in series, as I like to immerse myself into the plots.
Comic books, I generally save up a few months of a given title and read them in sequence. Mainly because the amount of content in a given comic book is usually not long enough to satisfy. (I still subscribe to paper comics).
Technical publications, I will read on a monitor... but for entertainment purposes, give me paper. I find it difficult to enjoy non-technical writing on any type of tablet or monitor. Perhaps because I spend enough time in front of them in my work hours (which are usually too long anyway).
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One on Kindle one from the library. Sometimes even one I own. All fiction - mostly thrillers/suspense/murder mysteries. Sometimes light sci-fi, like Robin Cook or Douglas E. Richards. Anything from James Patterson, Lee Child, David Baldacci, Michael Connelly, Mary Higgins Clark, etc. Use goodreads.com to keep track.
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