I have the habit of reading 2 or 3 books at the same time...I don't know if that is unusual or not.

So I guess the question I have is, does anyone else do this too?

I do tthis all the time. Not as much anymore because i dont have the time to read so many novels. But when i was younger, i did it alot.

I'm usually doing research for classes or work, so reading multiple books at one time is the norm (cumbersome). I haven't read fiction in a very long time, though, which is probably what you are talking about. :-?

It actually doesn't make any difference to me.
At the moment I'm about half-way through "Why people believe weird things, and have just started "UFO's Explained" by Philip Klass, and "Goldfinger" by Ian Fleming. And I'm also thinking of starting "Robot Visions" by Asimov. What I'm reading at any particular time depends "solely" on whim.

I didn't use to read more than one book at once (recreationally), but I've been doing it lately. The change from one book to another breaks the monotony.

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I usually have a couple of books on the go. Currently they are: The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (I figured its about time I read the book, I love the movie), Empire State by Henry Porter and Seeing in the Dark by Timothy Ferris.

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I usually don't read more than one work of fiction at a time, but compensate for that by reading at least 100 pages per day.

I do read multiple nonfiction books simultaneously though.

One book at a time. But I rip through them. I may even finish a book the same day that I start it.

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I read one book at a time. I've been doing it since Middle School. At the beginning it was only for fun, but now I also read to be a learned, educated person.(I finally matured I guess

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I hear you. During the last semester in college. I had to read three books. Now in the upcoming semester I will have two english classes (Western Literary Tradition and Modern literary Masterpieces) So I am expecting to read a whole lot. It will be better than the last semester for sure. I struggled with the english of Shakespeare #-o

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SOP for me. I usually have at least two or three books going at the same time at home and one book at work.

Sometimes it helps me get through a book I'm not particularly impressed with - read one for a few chapters then switch to another. Back to the first book and so forth.

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I used to read at that level, but now it's more like 100 per week.

Ditto, amazing what a kid does to your free time. Well... a kid and the BABB... 8-[

Can reading become a harmful addiction?

My grandmother thinks so! :roll:

Well, your grandmother is wrong.

Back in middle/high schools I tended to read during class. Like a junkie needing a hit I needed to know what was going to happen next. Couldn't help it so, yeah I'll support the harmful addiction question.

Didn't help that my schools didn't challenge me, I'd pay no attention and still ace tests. Then I got to college... yikes.

Me, too. I fluncked out of college my first year at Purdue. I did a little better at Ball State, it took me 2 years to flunk out. I had to re-learn study skills, and now I have a 3.91/4.0 GPA. Of course, that will change after this evil VB.NET course.

Right now, To Kill A Mockingbird because it was my daughter's 8th grade assignment, Sophie's Choice again, working slowly through Seven Years in Tibet, and A Confederacy of Dunces is taking forever. And a pile of technical books.

OT: ATP, why would a professor teach us something that is not from the book?

I questioned my professor on his teaching method. I asked him why our assignments for reading are the Tutorials, yet, nothing he is teaching us is from the book.

Professor Yao said he was teaching us what he has learned over the last 20 years from experience.

I then said, your experience is not helping me with homework at 3AM when I'm trying to figure this stuff out. The book is certainly not helping, which I strongly believe it should. The helpdesk is not open at 3AM. I told him I work 3rd shift, so I'm sleeping while the rest of the world is awake. To me, the purpose of a $90 textbook should be a reference to learning.

Yao then said, that's why he hands out Module's each week.

I then pointed out that what he is teaching in class on a big screen is not even from his handout's. :-?

Yao then advised the class to take a ten minute break, and he left the room.

During break, other students started to voice these same concerns.

Me thinks Professor Yao doesn't like me any longer. 8-[

Ype, three or four books simultaneously. Now: Stephen King 'Dark Tower 5 (wolves of the Calla)', Herbert and Anderson 'Dune: House Atreides', Robbedoes album 253, Terry Brooks 'Scions of Shannara', and Philip K. Dick 'Ubik'.

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