Yet Another Random Poll(tm)

[coraa]

Yet another just for my own curiosity poll! This one is about book reading.

(I realize that 'at one time' is ambiguous, and someone is going to make a smart remark about the number of hands and eyeballs they have. What I mean is: how may books can you comfortably have currently in progress -- can you read two chapters of one, and then the next day two chapters of another, or do you need to read sequentially?)

[Poll #1487732]

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[canis-ridens.livejournal.com]

I usually go by publication order unless I was introduced to it by grabbing a random book off the shelf at the store. The other exception is when someone has recommended a series to me, and suggested a different order.

If the book is good, I won't be able to put it down until it's done, and thus won't be able to start another book. If it doesn't grab me, however, I can easily read another at the same time, though I usually stop bothering with the crappy one if the replacement is good. Grade school English classes also often involved reading more than one book at a time (i.e., my "fun" book, and the assigned one).