Do your mandatory readings, since they are mandatory. Organize your time to finish that task like any other task you have to do.

Then read your pleasure books in your free time, and do it as you want since you don't need to meet any deadline. Don't overthink it.

TLDR: Focus on finishing your obligatory task. The rest should flow naturally depending on your interests.

You could do one as an audiobook while you do something else like cleaning or mindless video games or art, and the other physical reading!

Or sometimes I will read a physical book IRL, then crawl into bed at night and switch to another book digitally, lol. For some reason having them in different formats helps me keep them apart and feel like a different activity

I figured out how much I needed to read each day for my assigned reading to get it done on time. I always read what I had to for the assigned reading first, but once I reached my daily quota I could read whatever I wanted without stress.

Don't know if that would work for you or not, but I know it worked well for me.

Notes on your bookmark!

i can read two books at once when the Genre is completly different. Like Horror and Romance or something like that.

But when i was in school i never read the assigned readings so idk if this is a good advice for your problem

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Don’t have assignments anymore but I pretty much always have a fiction and nonfiction book going at the same time.