Reading dozens of books concurrently.

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Who else does this? I have begun, read parts of, and intend to continue reading about ooooooh, 30-40 books. My floor is also a kind of mad, helter skelter book shelf.

I think I'd prefer one book at a time.

Haha I always do this. My floor and desk is a mess of half-read books

I currently have 4 on the nightstand, and 4 under it.

I'll read whatever I'm in the mood for that night, and I oscillate between fiction and nonfiction.

I'm only reading eight at the moment. I have big round dinning table covered with books in front of the couch and huge stacks at the end of the couch. It's madness!

I think around eight at a time would be my record. Usually localized - a book open in each place I spend time. Though sometimes I will move a single book around. Right now I have only three in operation - though I feel I need to stock certain areas where I get stuck bookless.

currently reading the count of the catcher in the rye. its about a man edmond who is kicked out of school and plots revenge on his sister by throwing her off a cliff

Anyway I have trouble reading one book.. I spend too much time on the computer.

I usually just read one book at a time, but I have read as many as 4 or 5 books in the same time period; the only thing is that they have to be very different books or I tend to get them confused. For example, I may read a forensics textbook, a poetry collection, a suspense novel, and a book on trivia at the same time. However, I would get messed up if I read a forensics textbook, a CSI-type mystery novel, and the biography of a medical examiner; there'd be enough overlap to cause me confusion.

I used to read a lot of books, when I was in my teens. One after another.

The most I can handle at one time is three books.

ruveyn

I usually read 4 books at a time.

i used to read about 4-5 at a time when i went to school and used their library.
from which i constantly had out the maximum number checked out.
though now i generally read just one at a time and just read continuously straight through.
& i like longer books, like 300+ pages. Otherwise it just feels too short to me.
& even then it usually just takes me less than a night to read even a book as long as 700-1400 pages.

That's totally how I used to read books. I don't read nearly as much anymore though. But yeah, I've still got a few books going. (I used to try so hard to finish them all, but now I give up on a lot of the books I start.)

it's a form of multitasking if you think about it. it makes me wonder whether aspies can mulitask on abstract subjets but not on physical concrete activities.