I don’t push myself. I just want to. In fact I’ve had awful mental health the last couple of months and I haven’t watched or read anything new in that time. All rereads and rewatches. I just find it comforting.

If you don’t want to do it, then don’t. It should be something you want to do.

Try it. You’ll be surprised at how many details you have forgotten or you didn’t catch the first time round.

Also, with stories that depend heavily on a plot twist or something like that it’s a very different experience to go into it knowing the plot twist. At least if it’s a well written story you’ll find all these little hints that you didn’t pay much attention to but now they all make sense since you know where the story is leading.

Sure, you might not be able to re-create the same emotions, but what’s wrong with having new ones?

I only reread books that I really enjoy. It’s kind of like listening to a song I love again and again. Even though I know all the lyrics and every note, hearing it again still brings me joy.

It might not be the exact experience as the first read, but I discover something new each time.

I love to reread my favorites. The books that made me go through all the motions. But I also reread books in a series because I have terrible memory and can’t usually remember what happened last. And I also reread of I’m I a reading slump. Sometimes rereading a favorite gets me out of it.

Simple: I forget I’ve read it in the first place, then realise about 10 pages from the end, by which time I might as well finish the whole thing!

I only reread stuff I want to read again. There is no push. If you’re not eager to read the same book again, then don’t.

When you love someone or something you take the time to get to know them. ive reread at least 30 series some of them as much as 10 times. yes the feels hit different when that comes up. But just like a friend that makes you happy books will still get up just in different ways.

There are books that I’ve read and reread and taken away different things because of where I am in my life. After my dad died I looked at books that dealt with themes of loss differently. Now that I’m married I look at love stories in a new light. We change and the books we read change their meaning. There are books I plan to reread because post-pandemic my view of the world has definitely changed. I don’t know how old you are or where you are in your life, but it might not be time yet to revisit things. It’s ok either way.

I experience different emotions every time I reread something. Every time, it is a different scene that makes me feel something. t makes me realize how much I have changed as a person, the exact same scene that I found boring a year ago I might find moving this time. Give it a try.

as a child i was an avid reader, but i didnt really understand the context of the book (i will use animal farm as an example) later in life as i became more aware i would read books again and read between the lines, i would then understand the context more, Animal Farm is such a novel, as a child i read it as an animal adventure, as an adult i read it as a politcial pisstake and enjoyed it just as much from a different view, this is why i read books more than once. Good post, got me thinking.

I reread books all the time. Most of them are stories that I take great delight in encountering again and again; they never get boring, I’m always experiencing something new and delightful. Books like “Crime and Punishment”, “The Great Gatsby”, and “Ender’s Game” are going to be very different when you reread them, i.e. reading them in high school, then rereading them when you’re an adult in your 40’s.

When you reread a book, you are not the same person you were the first time you read it; likewise the book is not the same, because you have changed. Books take on new meanings and experiences depending on when we re-encounter them.

Are you suggesting that, one should only do something once and never again? Would you say the same thing about riding a bicycle, or skydiving, or dining at a restaurant, or talking to someone you like?

Books cost money, and there are a limited number of books available in genres I enjoy. Sooner or later, the choice becomes rereading or not reading at all, and I prefer the former.

I enjoy the characters and the setting. Those things get better with each reading. I guess I see a great book as art, to be appreciated again and again. Over time, the story changes with your stage in life. For example, I used to love Hamlet, the character. Now I can hardly stand him, but enjoy watching Shakespeare dissect him. My response to Steinbeck’s Winter of our Discontent changes so much as I mature that it seems like a completely different book.

I discovered many authors I still like when I was a kid - Conan Doyle, Wells, Verne, Asimov, others.

Now I’m 44 and revisiting some of them, because I don’t remember so well what I read more than 30 years ago. It’s a pleasure aking to that of visiting the house where you spent your childhood’s summers, or meeting an old, dear friend. It’s not the same for every author, of course: I love Bradbury but I don’t think I’ve ever read something of his twice, can’t explain why… maybe it’s just that, being his work so emotional, I want to keep in my heart what I felt the first time and not change it with new insights.

Furthermore, I’ve re-read everything by Terry Pratchett 4 times in my life and a fifth is incoming, because his books are so intelligent, funny, profound and have so many layers that every time I re-read them I find something new I didn’t know or remember.

Don’t need to push myself. I enjoy it