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Originally Posted by jviscosi
I almost never do this, although currently I sort of am ― I've been reading a Seabury Quinn story collection called The Horror on the Links at the rate of about one story per week while also reading other novels one at a time. The intro to the Quinn omnibus suggests reading it this way, in order to make the experience more like it would have been if, say, one were subscribing to "Weird Tales" back in the 1920s, so I'm just following instructions.
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This reminds me of another use case for reading more than one book at once: reading epistolary novels "as they happen". A good example of this is
Dracula Daily, essentially a mailing list where any letter or note in Bram Stoker's Dracula is posted "in real time" on the actual date of its appearance in the novel.
I have to say that, as interesting as the concept is, it probably works better for novels with frequent activity; in Dracula, sometimes several weeks will go by before a new letter appears, and it's easy to lose the momentum.