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Re: How many books do tou read in parallel?

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From David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net>
Subject Re: How many books do tou read in parallel?
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Date 2016-10-14 18:43 -0500

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On 2016-10-13, James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:
> <alal65536@gmail.com> wrote:
>>How many books do you read in parallel?
>
> I suck at multitasking so I do one thing at a time and that one thing
> is all I do while I am doing it (ignoring autonomic functions). Focusing
> on one thing at time does not seem to impede my productivity: the annual
> count Strange Horizons does provided me with the interesting trivium that
> the median review considered worthy of inclusion in their count, which
> does not include me NOT THAT I TAKE THAT SNUB PERSONALLY, reviews 5.6
> books per year, whereas in 2015 I reviewed 329. 

Sure, but you're one single improbable person, not a whole bunch of people
working specialized roles to get all the reviews covered and edited and proofed
and put out where people can see them; they're assuming you're either an
outlier, or a subsidized attempt to get their reviewers to break free and flee
into the hinterlands of the Internet and submerge themselves in the
incomprehensible post-Web economy.

Before I could answer the question, I'd have to know how long a book has to sit
waiting for me to get back to it before I'm no longer considered to be
"reading" it, and also whether websites full of fanfiction and/or comment
threads count.

Dave, and webcomics, and newspaper comic strips, come to think of it
-- 
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How many books do tou read in parallel? alal65536@gmail.com - 2016-10-13 04:22 -0700
  Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2016-10-13 12:36 -0500
    Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2016-10-14 00:40 -0700
    Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? alal65536@gmail.com - 2016-10-14 01:44 -0700
  Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? mcdowell_ag@sky.com - 2016-10-13 11:34 -0700
    Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-10-13 21:57 +0000
  Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) - 2016-10-13 18:52 +0000
    Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2016-10-13 15:36 -0500
      Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) - 2016-10-14 01:25 +0000
        Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2016-10-14 13:05 -0500
          Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) - 2016-10-16 20:21 +0000
            Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2016-10-16 19:12 -0500
              Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) - 2016-10-17 02:55 +0000
              Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? nance@math.ohio-state.edu (Anthony Nance) - 2016-10-17 13:47 +0000
                Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Joe Bernstein <joe@sfbooks.com> - 2016-10-17 09:13 -0700
                Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) - 2016-10-17 16:34 +0000
                Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> - 2016-10-17 13:52 -0400
                Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? nance@math.ohio-state.edu (Anthony Nance) - 2016-10-17 17:55 +0000
                Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2016-10-17 14:13 -0400
                Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2016-10-18 02:37 -0500
                Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2016-10-22 22:25 -0500
                Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2016-10-22 22:22 -0500
    Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2016-10-14 18:43 -0500
  Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Wayne Brown <fwbrown@bellsouth.net> - 2016-10-13 20:01 +0000
    Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Don Kuenz <g@crcomp.net> - 2016-10-14 00:26 +0000
      Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Wayne Brown <fwbrown@bellsouth.net> - 2016-10-20 19:57 +0000
      Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-10-20 20:20 +0000
        Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> - 2016-10-20 16:48 -0400
          Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-10-20 21:27 +0000
          Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Moriarty <blues95@ivillage.com> - 2016-10-20 17:09 -0700
            Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2016-10-21 03:02 -0500
              Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2016-10-21 06:04 -0700
        Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2016-10-20 15:50 -0500
          Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-10-20 21:28 +0000
            Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2016-10-20 16:51 -0500
              Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-10-20 21:56 +0000
          Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2016-10-20 21:56 +0000
            Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? David Johnston <Davidjohnston29@yahoo.com> - 2016-10-20 15:59 -0600
            Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-10-21 01:57 +0000
              Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> - 2016-10-20 20:23 -0700
                Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> - 2016-10-21 00:47 -0400
                Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-10-21 05:25 +0000
                Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2016-10-21 05:36 +0000
                Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-10-21 12:46 +0000
                Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2016-10-21 06:07 -0700
                Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb) - 2016-10-23 03:06 +0000
  Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> - 2016-10-13 15:17 -0700
    Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-10-14 04:28 +0000
      Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> - 2016-10-14 01:18 -0400
        Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-10-14 12:48 +0000
          Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Cryptoengineer <treifamily@gmail.com> - 2016-10-14 10:25 -0500
          Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2016-10-19 08:21 -0600
        Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> - 2016-10-15 13:30 -0700
          Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2016-10-16 01:33 -0400
          Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-10-16 02:44 -0700
            Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> - 2016-10-17 12:27 -0700
  Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-10-13 18:29 -0700
  Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2016-10-14 09:36 -0400
    Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2016-10-14 17:22 +0000
      Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@sometimes.sessile.org> - 2016-10-14 20:33 +0100
        Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2016-10-14 16:09 -0400
          Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-10-14 13:15 -0700
            Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2016-10-20 08:53 -0600
          Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2016-10-14 21:41 +0000
        Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2016-10-14 18:45 -0500
      Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-10-14 22:29 +0000
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      Re: How many books do tou read in parallel? nance@math.ohio-state.edu (Anthony Nance) - 2016-10-18 14:27 +0000
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