Strange, I just finished a dance show with a
track that was 30 minutes long: just
fader up at the beginning,
fader down at the end. I bring a
book to read, and glance up after every
page to make sure things are going ok, and I read about a
page a minute. I also have this weird thing in my subconscious where I know if something's wrong, and immediately put the
book down.
If you have a board with motorized faders, you could always see how far you can fling your pen with recall.
Most of the time I'm too concerned with what's going on with the band/PA/
stage/actor/
etc to do anything else. I only read during
intermission (if there aren't any problems that need addressing), preshow if I'm not gabbing on
headset, and dance shows with obscenely long tracks of Indian music (no offense intended, but it all sounds the same to me).