I carry around a backpack everyday full of stuff. On any given day I have at least three or four books with me in case I have spare time to read. Focus: Take a photo of current or interesting books in your bag. This is visual 'what are you reading' of sorts.
I don't carry around a bag, and I don't keep a book, never mind multiple books, in it. I do most of my recreational reading at home, in a nice comfy chair in front of the fireplace, or in the bath, or in bed. Or when I go hunting and am sitting in deer blind for hours a day.
I don't carry around a bag either. I'm also generally on only one or two books at a time. The only times I'll be reading several at once is if there's some non-fiction topic I've gotten temporarily engrossed in. At the moment I'm making my way through a book about DMT and starting on Gone Girl. I keep Robert Greene's books and the Bathroom Reader near the shitter because the short historical anecdotes and random facts make for great reading when you're taking a dump.
I will play with you, Latingroove, even though I am currently reading a lot of light girly books I don't think anyone will be interested in: 1. Riven Rock: I've been on a T.C Boyle tear. I'm just starting it but it's about a sex maniac and a suffragette so it can't be bad. 2. My Salinger Year: a memoir of a year working at the literary agency that represented Salinger. Don't care much about Salinger, but the look into mid-90s nyc literary scene is great. 3. Yes Please: just got it a few days ago but loving it already because Amy Poehler is the best and I want her to be my mom. 4. Spook: rereading it to be festive. Still great. 5. Inside the Dream Palace: about the history of the Chelsea Hotel 6. Women in Clothes: a bunch of personal essays and the like about fashion and style I absolutely do not carry all of these around at once, but I rotate depending on what I'm in the mood for. Edit: Aw man, I posted this from my phone and have no idea how to rotate the image. Apologies.
I collect printed first editions and swore I'd never get an e-book reader and then I was gifted a Kindle Fire. A modern book bag, if you will. It's kind of a PITA, but works well enough for traveling. Especially as I usually lug around 6-8 books when I travel. Currently it holds: Sun Tsu, The art of war; Marcus Aurelius, Meditations; The Raven, Poe; The Time Machine by Wells; and Freakonomics. A bit dry, but hey, except for the last, they were free. Problem is the freebies are posted in a massive page of book covers completely unsorted. I just need to dive back into the morass to find some more entertaining stuff.