[ApK]

This thread had made me realize that I very rarely re-read.
In fact, it's so infrequent a thing for me that I don't know if I could ever justify paying more than a couple bucks a book. Other than reference-type books of course.

It does happen, but it's the exception rather than the rule that I will want to revisit a book, cover to cover. And quite often those visits would tend to be years apart, when either I've forgotten enough of the first experience for it to seem new again, or I've changed so much that I want to read it as the new me.

I see all the analogies about dating the same girl again, or ordering the same meal, or listening to the same song.

Maybe those people just read much faster than I do, but for me it's more like having a long relationship, and then parting as friends, or going to school and moving on to another interest, or doing a stint in the military.

I'm not usually going to call that girl back a few months later, or re-enroll in the same classes, or re-enlist. I had the experience, got out of it what I could and I have the memories.

ApK