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I exhort each and every one of you to try my elder brother's new reading policy. After years of mild drinking, his memory isn't what it once was. He doesn't like the idea of ebooks (I am thinking of buying him a kindle for Christmas), but what he does have is a large collection of print books.
He has got into the habit of reading these same books over and over again, placing a date last read on the inside cover. He knows he won't be able to remember a book if he read it, say, five years ago, so when he finds one of these on his shelves, he'll choose that book and simply read it again.
His rationale, as he recently explained it to me, was that he knows he likes these books. He chose them. He knows that he enjoyed them, and is now considering buying no new books ever again. "I can just keep reading them over and over," he says. "I have gone through a selection process. I know I like them. Why should I try something new that might not appeal to me?"
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