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Originally Posted by piper28
I'll re-read books a number of times, although there's generally some time period between times when I read them. But I often find on a second or third read I'm still noticing details that I might have missed the first time. (Or, for a series, I'll notice where things were foreshadowed in an early book in a series.)
Of course, there's also books that after I've read once, I know I'll never read them again.
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This, exactly.
I re-read relatively few books compared to all the books I read, but they all fall into two categories: re-reads of old favourite books I haven't touched for several years (and thus don't remember well enough to recall details), and favourite series books where re-reading earlier books after newer ones have been released & read can show a number of things in a completely different light.
Throwaway lines I never paid attention to at first read, minor characters mentioned but seeming insignificant at the time, subtle foreshadowing of future twists... I love seeing how things were built up, how the author added up the necessary details in early books, even if I missed their significance at the time.