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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
My inability to re-read has nothing to do with "knowing what's going to happen" (not directly anyway). I want to re-read, but I can't. Not because there's no joy in it, but because I simply can't focus. I read something that I didn't catch the first time around and immediately start trying to fit it in with what I know is coming from my previous read. Part of my mind goes on a wild tangent while my eyes are still scanning the pages (and my hands are even turning the pages), but I'm no longer reading. I'm just turning pages and moving my eyes while my mind is working a future problem in the plot. Then I catch myself and have to figure out exactly where my eyes stopped seeing the words and start over from there. But it eventually happens all over again. I'm skimming pages without the words truly registering while thinking about other parts of the book. I hate skimming; I won't ever consciously do it. So eventually I just gave up trying.
It's my loss, I know. I really do envy those who can still re-read books.
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So it sounds like your memory is too good. Mine isn't, which may explain why I don't have any trouble with re-reading. Although, for books I read a long time ago, I will occasionally get a flash of the way I pictured the characters back then and find that it was totally different than the new way I'm doing it. It always leaves me a little flustered (why couldn't I remember? why have they changed? was it because I changed?...)