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Old 07-09-2017, 12:03 PM   #26117
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Originally Posted by bfisher View Post
But I do find generally that when reading lots of non-fiction it has to be read in small bites, so I'm usually juggling books. I didn't do that nearly as much with pbooks, but with the ereader it is so easy to carry many books around and jump between them.
I tend to have one book that I'm actively reading, with one or two others that I'm technically in the middle of. Your example reminds me that I took a couple of years to finish a certain book on politics - it wasn't long, but it was very dense and had hundreds of endnotes, so I had to take it in small bites. While I was technically in-progress with that one, I literally read hundreds of novels, and sometimes I would pause a novel to read a graphic novel or three. Before I switched to ebooks as my main reading, and even now when I'm focused on a tree-book, sometimes I'd change books when I was headed to a store that sold books... as a measure of protection against accusations of shoplifting. (I attend a monthly book club meeting that takes place at a local Books-A-Million. It irks me that I can't buy ebooks from the BAM website while I'm there and have the purchase credited to that branch.)

So, my focus is usually on one book at a time. Right now, for instance, I've got two short story collections open on my reader, but I also have an almost-completed graphic novel on my iPad that's been "open" for months because it's my emergency backup read. Once I find a suitable replacement, I'll probably finish that up and open a new e(mergency)book in its place.
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