[scpedicini]

Your hangups about not reading two books at once and being contractually obligated to finish a book are interesting but I'm not sure that they're culturally normative, I've certainly never felt this way about books.

Our time on this planet is finite, and I'm not going to push through a slog of a fiction book because the last 20% of it is ostensibly worth it.

It vaguely reminds me of old jrpgs and how you used to have to do a bunch of boring fetch quests and grinding to be able to actually get to the enjoyable aspects of the game.

[mjoksimovic]

Well, this is exactly what I found interesting. When you talk to people who are "readers" (as in - have been reading for a while), this seems to be a "normal" for them.

And yet, go and talk to anyone (myself included) who was never into reading, and you'll encounter complete shock once you mention "reading more than one book at a time". It's funny, I know, but it's mind blowing for us who never "learned" how to read :)