For reference books, of course, I'm not reading them sequentially. And if I'm going to a book to look up something specific, the where I was last isn't an issue. But if I'm going to a book with which I have some familiarity, looking for something I've read before, I can usually find it fairly swiftly, even in a novel. It's harder if I've only read it once, harder still if it's a long time ago.
In the case of a novel I'm reading for the first time, I can flick through it fairly quickly, fast-forwarding past the bits I've already read, until I get to the page I need. That technique works less well with books I've read several times.
A number of people have multiple novels on the go at once, but I tend only to read one at a time. I don't know whether this technique would scale to multiple simultaneous "new" books.
If I'm interrupting my reading briefly -- to change trains, say, or to answer the phone -- then I'll remember the page number for half an hour or so. If it's longer than that, I'll have to fast-forward as above.
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I can do that to some extent with reference books, but never with a novel.
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In the case of a novel I'm reading for the first time, I can flick through it fairly quickly, fast-forwarding past the bits I've already read, until I get to the page I need. That technique works less well with books I've read several times.
A number of people have multiple novels on the go at once, but I tend only to read one at a time. I don't know whether this technique would scale to multiple simultaneous "new" books.
If I'm interrupting my reading briefly -- to change trains, say, or to answer the phone -- then I'll remember the page number for half an hour or so. If it's longer than that, I'll have to fast-forward as above.