/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.20909638]

How many books do you read at a time? I usually read one fiction and one nonfiction.

[Anonymous No.20909658]

Three, one for each hand and foot

[Anonymous No.20909679]

>>20909638
Oh man, at least a dozen. I like having an open buffet.

[Anonymous No.20909694]

>>20909638
I usually read one at a time is reading multiple books at once worth it?

[Anonymous No.20909708]

>>20909694
imo only if you have a diseased zoomer brain with no attention span

[Anonymous No.20909828]

I’m like a confused honeybee promiscuously going from one to another. I’ve lost count, I must get to half a dozen at least, but I keep tasting new ones. I’ve no qualms about it.
I can keep them all straight in my head fine.

[Anonymous No.20909913]

In order to become an efficient reader you have to read in accordance to how your memory works, which means that you need to understand principles like spaced repetition, interleaving and active recall, and structure your readings in a way that makes the most of them, e.g. by reading, in order, enough books so that there's always a period of 2-4 days between the same one, requiring some conscious mental effort in order to remember what you have read so far before jumping back in and so on

This is counter-intuitive, because we assume that we learn better when we focus on just one topic at a time, but study after study shows this isn't the case. Just like cramming in the days before a test will not result in any lasting learning, focusing in just one book and trying to be done with it as fast as possible is not going to be very fruitful in the long run. Not only you're going to forget most of it, but you're also not giving your thoughts on it time to form and mature between sessions, and the fact you don't have other works to serve as a point of contrast as you go means you're not going to pick up on the nuances and details that make up the prose and style of each author, so you're not growing as a thinker or communicator either

[Anonymous No.20909915]

Maximum of 3.

[Anonymous No.20909949]

>>20909638
I read one at a time to make sure I actually follow through with the whole thing and learn something from it.
Maybe when I have the confidence to try to read something huge like a 1000+ page history book or the Torah or something I'll grant myself a peripheral text for breaks, but not at this moment.

[Anonymous No.20909959]

>>20909638
Currently about a dozen.

[Anonymous No.20910003]

>>20909694
I usually read two at a time, one classic and a "lighter" book. When I want to read but am too tired to read the classic, I read the other.

[Anonymous No.20910794]

>>20909638
over 20

[Anonymous No.20910878]

2 at a time. 1 big book (Infinite Jest right now) and 1 smaller book. I'm reading Infinite Jest by Wallace and The Elementary Particles by Houellebecq right now.

[Anonymous No.20911299]

>>20909658
How do you lose a hand or foot?

[Anonymous No.20911937]

>>20910878
>Infinite Jest
I've been reading that for 3 years a little bit at a time. Not sure how I feel about it.

[Anonymous No.20911987]

>>20909913
I'm curious how this pertains to being so immersed you achieve the so-called 'flow state'. Or even immersing yourself by power of will so that you achieve a state of flow. Likewise, numbing the active mind and 'activating' the passive (subconscious) mind through tedious, dull readings.

Either way I alternate between two (maybe three) books, so I imagine I'm getting spaced repetition in.

[Anonymous No.20912014]

Only one at a time, don't really have the time for more with two jobs and college. I probably wouldn't even read more than one even if I had more time. I'd rather just focus on my other hobbies. Reading is more like a leisure activity for me, like watching TV.

[Anonymous No.20912022]

1 audiobook
1-2 pdfs
1 physical bedside table/commute book

[Anonymous No.20912027]

>>20909913
I do understand your point, but since I don't see reading books as something I want to get "good" at, or extract as much self-improvement value as possible from it, I just immerse myself in one book until I've read it in its entirety. If I liked the author enough, I'll go on a dive into that author's bibliography. I rely on other hobbies to provide the thinking and communication capabilities, such as learning languages and studying philosophy. Besides, it's not like reading one book at a time and immersing yourself entirely prevents you completely from enjoying the benefits that you stated.

[Anonymous No.20912139]

None, reading is for trannies.

[Anonymous No.20912172]

>>20909638
1. i'll finish it in three days tops then grab another unless it was so well written i give myself a couple of days to ponder on it.

[Anonymous No.20912178]

>>20909913
This how one studies, not how one reads nigger. Anyway thanks for the tips I have a huge exam coming

[Anonymous No.20912188]

>>20909638
I need to start reading again.

[Anonymous No.20912253]

>>20909638
I need to watch kill la kill again.

[Anonymous No.20912644]

1 novel
1 non fiction
1 light non fiction

with some short stories and essays sprinkled in between

[Anonymous No.20913030]

[Anonymous No.20913053]

I read in parallel:
>1 Arno Schmidt thing (chronologically at the moment so the particular work changes)
>1 of the books he praised
>1 other book, either something from the Greeks or one artbook
>2 audiobooks - one for walks or cycling outside and one for when I paint or draw

[Anonymous No.20914063]

>>20909638
God I wish that were me

[Anonymous No.20914077]

>>20909638
I 'read' a lot of non-fiction and generally one fiction book. The many non-fiction books are explained by different foci and only needing passages of one book, reading two books comparatively. It's work at that point. You can't have fun when you delve too deep into a topic, work on something with multiple works; or, at least not that type of simple fun you feel reading a book for its own merit. The choice of whether you read a book or not, whether it is good doesn't have that much to do with the book. You drop it when it's bad, but you wouldn't have started it if you knew that was the case, so you made some choices before.

[Anonymous No.20914196]

>>20913053
What books have he praised?

[Anonymous No.20914216]

>>20914196
I'm glad you asked. It's quite the list, actually. I'm keeping track of them as I read Schmidt's works.
"X" means I own a physical copy of the book.

[Anonymous No.20914813]

>>20914216
Shouldn't there be a master list of works he has mentioned somewhere already?

[Anonymous No.20914855]

>>20914813
I've asked around but so far no one seems to have made a comprehensive list. It's also not always clear when he just recommends something as a curiosity opposed to when it's a recommendation for the book's qualities. There are also books he never mentioned in his writings except for his letters. But the books he truly liked aren't that numerous. He had a sweet spot for adventure novels by Karl May, Verne, Poe, and Schnabel. He loved German Expressionism like Hans Henny Jahnn, Theodor Däubler and Ehrenstein. And then there's stuff like Fouqué, Tieck, Wieland, Moritz, Mörike, the Brontes and lots of other things from the 1th and 19th century he liked.

[Anonymous No.20915849]

>>20909638
this woman in my country she is everything

[Anonymous No.20915883]

>>20909638
I read until I get bored, then switch to another until I get bored with that one, and come back to the first one when I feel like it again. In this way I achieve maximum fun.

[Anonymous No.20915923]

>>20915849
/lit/ is a satsuki board

[Anonymous No.20915931]

>>20915923
Makato is best.

[Anonymous No.20915945]

>>20909638
3:
>one about my area of work
>one novel
>one about things I'm curious about

[Anonymous No.20915976]

>>20912022
i like it

[Anonymous No.20916706]

>>20909638
two. one at work during lunch break and one at home

[Anonymous No.20917087]

>>20909915
Why does this image exist?

[Anonymous No.20917107]

at the moment i'm currently reading 107 books, one paragraph at a time.

[Anonymous No.20917867]

>>20917087
Why do we exist?

[Anonymous No.20918774]

>>20909694
Do I have it if I only read one book at a time guys?

[Anonymous No.20918928]

>>20909638
I'm currently reading 15 different books. I really like to purchase books, I'm not a very fast reader and I like to have different options to choose from according to my current mood. Once I start hitting 20 I might stop buying new ones though because this is slowly getting out of control

[Anonymous No.20918941]

>>20909638
None

[Anonymous No.20920114]

>>20909638
None. Just /lit/. Should I start reading in September?

[Anonymous No.20920119]

>>20909638
>How many books do you read at a time?
0

[Anonymous No.20920148]

>>20909638
Same but I have few that are always in the background that are big collection books- Irish folk tales book, big book of noire stories, Sherlock Holmes, etc.
Keeps things fresh when I wanna break things up on long books but don’t want the pile to get out of control.

[Anonymous No.20920259]

>>20909638
Reading 2.
A physical book to read when I am at home. Another that I downloaded as a PDF on my phone to read in public.