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Re: What type of reader are you?

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Usually one at a time, but I have been known to read two at a time. They have to be totally different books, for instance. I'm  currently reading a book on money management and a thriller.  

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Re: What type of reader are you?

1 at a time.  My sister told me she used to have 3 or 4 going at the same time.  I thought this was kind of crazy, as I don't see how she kept everythng straight.  Sometimes books have so many characters that I have to go back and forth for awhile to get them clear in my head -- so attempting this with multiple books would just drive me batty!  I always have stacks of books to choose from.  I never know what kind of book I will feel like and I want to be prepared!  

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Re: What type of reader are you?

I have had several boks going at a time before but now choose to read on at a time.

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Re: What type of reader are you?

When my home was busier, I used to read more nonfiction and several books at a time. Kept one in my car for running kids places and waiting. I even juggled several daily devotionals. 

 

Now - One book at a time and over half the time audio book from library. It goes where I go. Fiction. I like to relate to characters and have interest in the subject. I stop listening/reading now if my interest doesn't kick in by chapter 4. I focus on one daily devotional at a time. I also donate books and no longer hold onto these in a cluttered bookcase.      

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Re: What type of reader are you?

When I was younger it was usually multiple books and multiple men.

 

Now I'm middle-aged it's only one book at a time and a neverending parade of plagues and maladies.  🤣

 

I do read short stories in between, always on the Kindle Fire* which I use for short stories.

 

*My brand-new Fire 10 is haunted and marking stories read that I haven't read and if I'm reading one and set it aside, marking it finished then not letting me finish ot/  Dear Amazon, like theShop (based on Amazon) in the dystopian satire Qualityland, is pushing back that their new Fire is neither glitchy nor defective and I therefore must be an idiot and/or delusional.  

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Re: What type of reader are you?

I read several at a time. Usually 2 or 3 fiction, and several non fiction.

Been that way since my school days when we had several subjects going all the time.

The best thing about the Kindle is that I can carry all them around with me, automatically bookmarked where I left off reading.
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Re: What type of reader are you?

I definitely like to only read 1 book at  aa time!

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Re: What type of reader are you?

For the most part, I read one at a time. For longer books I might take a break in between.

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Re: What type of reader are you?

I enjoy reading 1 book at a time. I always have a stack of books ready to grab the next in line once I finish the 1 I'm reading. Only time I may have multiple books being read are if some are easy travel/tourism books that I'm reading for research of a future trip. 

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Re: What type of reader are you?

Usually I have several at one time going.  I stopped my "car" book reading when the days of waiting on my son at school or activities ceased.  He does that now with my grandchildren.

I have my exercise bike book, my couch book, and the one at my office during lunch.

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