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I tend to have one or two books (well, novels) going at a time. Right now it's Jericho Moon (Stover) and The Chessmen of Mars (Burroughs), but only because Jericho Moon arrived in the mail while I was in the middle of The Chessmen. I used to pride myself on never giving up on a book, I would read it all the way through no matter what. Then I hit a biography that was dry as dust, never did finish that one. After that I would only drop a book if it was truly painful, but finish everything else. Now my TBR list is long enough that I haven't picked up a painful book in years, so I'm back to finishing everything. And rereading some things, which I never used to do at all.
I do read fairly quickly, a short novel will only take a couple-few hours usually, though speed depends heavily on how interesting it is. I think the longest book I ever read in a day was around 900 pages, that was a day off and a really good book. That's actually one of the reasons I was so excited to get an ereader, it'll save me from dragging along so many books on trips. I can't count the number of times I ran out of books before the plane ride back home.
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