i don't understand this question! there are fewer opportunities but so many books available that it's the same difficulty regardless. but times i have read only a few books in a year i've been so busy/tired/destroyed that everything was difficult so it made no difference. people who read less for other reasons such as not caring about reading as much could also have an easier time because they just never feel anxious about how many books there are.
i'm about to finish a 500 page book i started last week though so things are going much better
― superdeep borehole (harbl), Friday, 4 December 2020 12:54 (three years ago) link
the number of books i’m currently “reading” but haven’t finished has risen dangerously over the last couple of weeks
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 4 December 2020 12:57 (three years ago) link
just reviewed this stat myself. disastrous. utterly disastrous.
― Fizzles, Friday, 4 December 2020 13:06 (three years ago) link
every year i say finish before you move onto the next one and every year i do that for two short books and then it all falls apart.
― Fizzles, Friday, 4 December 2020 13:08 (three years ago) link
Happy to read multiple non-fiction books simultaneously, but can only manage one fiction at a time - except *maybe* if I have some short stories on the go.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 4 December 2020 16:40 (three years ago) link
I'm a book monogamist but that hardly keeps the fomo away - if anything it's worse with all those shelves of unread books staring at me.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 4 December 2020 16:42 (three years ago) link
finishing a book is part of what motivates me to read another so i have learned not to pick up multiple books so i don't end up with 10 half read books and finish 0 of them, also do best when i finish something faster
― superdeep borehole (harbl), Friday, 4 December 2020 16:44 (three years ago) link
I often read one longer fiction or non-fiction book at the same time as reading one poetry book. Multiple books within the same genre is a but much for me!
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Friday, 4 December 2020 16:51 (three years ago) link