How many books have you currently started but not finished?

[wyndslash]

i find that ever since owning an ereader, i've been much more impatient about books that don't hold my attention very well. after all, it's easy to flip to a new book and forgot about the former!

[SeaBookGuy]

Originally Posted by wyndslash

i find that ever since owning an ereader, i've been much more impatient about books that don't hold my attention very well. after all, it's easy to flip to a new book and forgot about the former!

Agreed - esp with library books!

[JerseyBiker]

I'm the type of person that hate not to finish something I start. I never start on a new book before I finish the previous one. But sometimes it kills me to finish a book I'm just not enjoying. I keep wishing that somewhere along the line if I keep going it will get better. Sometimes they do but sometimes not. I just finished a book today that I got free from B&N. Now I know why they were giving it away. What a waste of time. I'll have to start forcing myself to give up on bad reads.

[issybird]

Originally Posted by DMB

But although I am a reading addict a lot depends on circumstances. I currently have two philosophy books on the go on my K3. But I need to be in the mood for them and also not too tired to grapple with the arguments. When I am really tired I read undemanding genre fiction and at any time I might have one of those on the go where I read a chapter at a time.

I usually have three or four books going, of various genres/levels of difficulty. A history or biography, a memoir or travel, a literary fiction and a mystery, say. Then (at least in theory) I try to discipline myself to read the most difficult book I have the energy for--no goldbricking with a mystery when I can manage something more serious. But reading is for love, so if I want to indulge I generally do (and not just in reading, either). Lately I've been rushed and exhausted, so lately The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy has been getting passed over in favor of lighter reads. I will get back to it, however.

When I give up on a book, it's for all time. I'm well past the age where I'm asking "Will this be on the final?"

[lestatar]

Originally Posted by JerseyBiker

I'm the type of person that hate not to finish something I start. I never start on a new book before I finish the previous one. But sometimes it kills me to finish a book I'm just not enjoying. I keep wishing that somewhere along the line if I keep going it will get better. Sometimes they do but sometimes not. I just finished a book today that I got free from B&N. Now I know why they were giving it away. What a waste of time. I'll have to start forcing myself to give up on bad reads.

^ This. Exactly how I feel as well.

[Nyssa]

Originally Posted by Pomtroll

10. I have made a collection on each of my readers titled "back burner". I've had trouble sticking with any book lately. <snip>

I'm in the exact same boat. I can't seem to concentrate.

[Giggleton]

I don't see a book as ever being finished, I'm really only reading one book. It just makes things easier.

[DMB]

My ebook reading habits are simply an extension of my dt reading habits. I always used to carry lighter-weight books such as paperbacks around but have the really heavy tomes left open either on a book rest or simply flattened out. Typically, this latter sort reside in the kitchen or in the bathroom. The bathroom ones accompany tooth brushing and sometimes sitting on the loo and the kitchen ones are there for when I'm cooking. Thus The Ancestor's Tale (in hardback) was a cooking book and Restoration: Charles II and His Kingdoms, 1660-1685 (also hardback) spent almost two years as a tooth-brushing book. BTW I would thoroughly recommend both books if the subjects interest you.

[SeaBookGuy]

You can read a print book and brush your teeth at the same time -- wow!

[estelle58]

Just one for me

[Quake1028]

I don't think the list is very long:

Boneshaker
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[speakingtohe]

I don't abandon a book unless I find it extremely offensive, tedious or it makes me uncomfortable on a deep level. Life is too short to willingly endure memtal agony.

I may stop reading a book because I am not really enjoying it at the time, and finish it later and thoroughly enjoy it. A frame of mind or mood thing I guess.

I don't attempt to keep track though.

I have many ebooks and pbooks and a wonderful library system so I have always something to read, and more often than not I read a book from start to finish and enjoy every word.

Helen

[orlok]

Originally Posted by Pomtroll

10. I have made a collection on each of my readers titled "back burner". I've had trouble sticking with any book lately. I finished Dune because I had to read it again for my book club. Glad I did because I got a whole new perspective reading it this time.. I first read it in the early 1970s.

You've reminded me that Dune was a book I could never finish. And I think it will stay that way .

[anamardoll]

Originally Posted by orlok

You've reminded me that Dune was a book I could never finish. And I think it will stay that way .

For me, it's a book I can't start. I accidentally read the last few pages once and conceived an instant dislike of the protagonist.

[orlok]

Originally Posted by anamardoll

For me, it's a book I can't start. I accidentally read the last few pages once and conceived an instant dislike of the protagonist.

How on earth do you accidentally read the last few pages