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Originally Posted by bzpilman
I have always a fiction and a non-fiction being read together. That way I can keep focused on both as they don't interfere
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I've never understood this thinking. Maybe if one read only in a very restricted genre (Victorian vampire detectives, say), the details of one story might bleed into another, but in general, stories are sufficiently different that that's not the case. I'm currently reading a fantasy set in ancient Atlantis, a 1940s mystery set in a casino town, a time-travel anthology, an adventure set on a terraformed Mars, and a nonfiction work about the history of money. These are not characters and settings that I'll tend to get confused.
On the mechanics of reading, I convert twenty or so works and put them on my eBookwise, and read several of those at a time until I get down to a few, at which time I load a score more. I have a list of everything I've read, and that list also tracks how far I am in a dozen series, so I can usually have one or two of those loaded.