The Sword and Laser discussion

I've been reading Scott R. Kurtz comics for nearly 20 years now. I particularly like his newer Table Titans, but PvP is what first introduced me to him back in college.

Anyways, one of his characters is named "Book Cat". He never talks, he just always reading books around another character of his "Scratch Fury" much to Scratch's annoyance.

I thought today's comic would especially appeal to this group. I put it in spoiler tags just to minimize the load, etc.

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And if you're interested, this is the 3rd comic of this "arc": http://pvponline.com/comic/2019-03-21

GMTA

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Trike (Jan 14 2019 12:22PM):
If I could read two books at the exact same time, with one going to each eye, while simultaneously listening to two books at the same time, one with each ear, I so would.

This makes me happy :)

Hahah Scott is pretty awesome. And that comic is spot-on.

Hah! I'm with the...rat? I can't read and do anything else, definitely not another book. Even music is iffy. And where some people have multiple books going at any one time, I usually don't want to do even that or the stories get mixed up in my head. I usually need to finish one book before starting another, and will usually want to finish a series before moving on if that is possible.

Was I the only one who just assumed the cat was reading and listening to the same book? I never thought for a second he was multi-tasking until I read the other comments - I just thought he was treating all senses to the same book.

Ruth, my interpretation was the same.

^ I like that interpretation better! But I still couldn't do it.

Getting a bit far afield, reading opens up a silent space in my head. Reading in quiet is the best way to open it, although it's been known to happen in noisy environments like a subway if I can withdraw into the book. Whatever the reason, I think my particular brain structure / reading method is why I prefer the vast scale works like Ringworld or space voyages over great distances, or the "cosmic" heroes in Marvel like Adam Warlock or Dr. Strange.

When I tell people I read one book and listen to another "at the same time" I mean on the same day.

I know some people use that whipsersync with voice to swap between audio and text of the same book, but I always keep mine separate.

Really though, I just enjoyed the joke..

I can only read one book at a time. I've tried juggling and it doesn't work. I can only focus on one story (unless it's a quick read like Gmorning, Gnight!: Little Pep Talks for Me & You and The Magician King which I did recently).

I do listen to music while reading. It helps drown out other distractions but only music without any lyrics. Lyrics are distracting.