Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site aplvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!aplvax!mae From: mae@aplvax.UUCP (Mary Anne Espenshade) Newsgroups: net.books,net.sf-lovers Subject: Rereading Message-ID: <120@aplvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 16:39:39 EDT Article-I.D.: aplvax.120 Posted: Thu Jun 27 16:39:39 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 1-Jul-85 07:59:18 EDT Distribution: net Organization: JHU/Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD Lines: 25 Xref: watmath net.books:2003 net.sf-lovers:8313 >From Lee Gold (barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP): > I typically let a book wait a week or two before rereading it . . . Above is just one example of something that has been discussed a lot here lately- reading books a second time and how some are still exciting after 20 readings. I have one question for all of you on this - HOW DO YOU HAVE TIME FOR THIS????? The stack of books I have "to be read" fills the shelf in my nightstand and part of the storage space in the headboard of my bed. I try to keep up to date on the magazines I read but I'm usually about a month behind. My stack of sf fanzines to be read is probably a foot deep. I carry a book with me at all times (though I have better sense than to read while driving as has been complained about in net.auto) and am a reasonably fast reader, or at least I was back in school when such things were tested. There are books I've read more than once, such as Lord of the Rings, but usually with several years between readings. There are lots of books I would like to read again but there is too much I want to read for the first time. Have you taken speed reading or what? I guess my problem is I want to read EVERYTHING. (Just finished Flight of the Dragonfly - very good) Mary Anne Espenshade ...!{allegra, seismo}!umcp-cs!aplvax!mae