>But I don't think reading many books in parallel is a good strategy... I think if you got a system, it works - for example, I usually read one non-fiction and

>But I don't think reading many books in parallel is a good strategy... I think if you got a system, it works - for example, I usually read one non-fiction and one fiction book at a time, possibly with a book of short stories. As long as I don't neglect any of the books for so long that I forget what they're about, and when the switches between books are in logical locations like at the end of a chapter and not in the middle of the text, it works out for me [1]. For that e-readers are good - they let you easily switch between books. [1] It has failed exactly once, when I didn't open a book for a few months and had to re-start from the beginning