Reading more than 1 book at a time

Jive Turkey · January 03, 2016, 02:04:13 AM

Hello I am trying to cultivate knowledge and have purchased some very good books recently. However I have a habit of reading chunks of books and then hopping back and forth between different ones.

Is this bad? I would think it would mess up my focus on the material but sometimes it helps me draw parallels between them and the stuff I'm trying to learn(many of them are in a similar subject).

Ushan · January 03, 2016, 02:31:35 AM

If that's how you want to read, then that's fine.

I tend to put down a book and then pick it back up again a year or more later. I think it's helped improve my memory if anything.

January 03, 2016, 02:34:30 AM

>Average college student
>Average student in general at that

TB · January 03, 2016, 06:42:06 PM

Totally up to you really.

Jim · January 03, 2016, 06:53:36 PM

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Cadenza has moved on · January 03, 2016, 06:56:20 PM

I know how you feel, but it's been working out fine for me:

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Spoiler

Successful Drawing
ANSI C 2nd edition
The Master Switch
Notes from Trigonometry
Elementary number theory
Linear algebra done right
Linear algebra done wrong
Linear algebra
Linear algebra (a different one)
Foundations of infinitesimal calculus
Elementary calculus and infinitesimal approach
calculus 7e

I have to say, reading multiple books at the same time is especially helpful for maths, the number theory book keeps proving things in terms of sets and all the algebra books in terms of functions.

Verbatim · January 03, 2016, 06:56:45 PM

The very thought of it makes me shudder.

More Than Mortal · January 03, 2016, 08:08:21 PM

A lot of people do it.

I usually read about five/six books at a time, but I try to diversify the topic..

Casper · January 03, 2016, 08:21:17 PM

Ew reading.