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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Most of my favorite books of all time, I've only read once. Not because they're not worthy, but because doing so might cause me to miss out on reading something that's even better in the limited time I have before shuffling off. "Never straight, but forward" is my motto.
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That is entirely different from saying you would only ever want to read it once,
because after that it loses its ability to be interesting to you.
I prefer reading new books to rereading old ones, too. Nevertheless, given an old book, and no new book readily available, I gain just as much satisfaction the second time around.
(I may be disappointed at the missed opportunity to grow the category of "equally great books I have read".
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