Right now I'm reading six, which is more than I'd like. One is rather a slog and it's going slowly.
My ideal is four. One audiobook and three books on the Goldilocks principle: one hard (generally serious history, etc.), one medium (a memoir or travel book, say) and one easy (a novel). But there are ramifications with all of these and it doesn't (frequently doesn't) work out. I'm especially susceptible to not feeling in the mood for anything I'm in the middle of, so I start yet another. But I always, in the end, will either finish a book or do an official DNF.
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