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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.
Software Zen: delete this;
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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.
Software Zen: delete this;
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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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Interesting - mine is set to time.windows.com and it synced about twenty minutes ago.
I don't remember ever changing it ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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There appears to be a DNS entry for nist.time.gov redirecting to time.glb.nist.gov.
Primary domain is nist.gov, not time.gov.
On Windows 7, if I type
net stop w32time
net start w32time in a console with no elevated privileges, I do not get any error (the service just stops and starts as required).
Maybe there are some entries in Windows' logs which could sched a light on what is happening. There also could be a policy preventing you from managing the service.
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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time.nist.gov is the US url; nist.time.gov is the proper url that the rest of the world uses.
(I hope I do not have to explain the bad joke here).
I'd rather be phishing!
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No need to explain the joke, but you definitely needed to point it out as I thought you was being serious until the subtext 
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pool.ntp.org
Works for me.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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theoldfool wrote: pool.ntp.org
Or us.pool.ntp.org if you want to ensure lower latency by hitting something aithin the US.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Thank you. My precision requirement are: +/- one fortnight. 
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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...by some. However, in these times of political turmoil it's nice to be somewhere that we can finally get some peace and quiet from the rabid media frenzy currently going on everywhere else!
aah, peace... 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: it's nice to be somewhere that we can finally get some peace and quiet from the rabid media frenzy currently going on everywhere else!
You could just turn off all the social media feeds and, well, the computer, radio, and TV as well.
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Not sure that works in an US election year ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Which is every year it seems. 
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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It wasn't missed; the nuke hit it bang on.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Obligatory xkcd: Laser Scope
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Does the nuke work outside of Codeproject?
I have a few more targets in mind.
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