[YmMot]

When I was very young I developed the habit of rereading almost every book I read multiple times; unless I found it particularly bad or boring. I think most kids do this, but some seem to lose the habit along the way. I tend to be "reading" multiple books at any given time; a new one that gets most of my attention and then 2 or 3 old ones that I will switch to to break up the pace. As a result I tend to retain a fair bit; enough that I feel it's worth my while. There are some books in my collection I can recite large portions of from reading them so many times. I've probably read the Brothers Karamazov ~20 times. I've never understood this notion some people seem to have of reading a book and then being done with it.

[ctdonath]

Re-reading books (along with re-watching movies) is sensible when you have infinite time available. When young, you don't grok the concept of a finite lifespan. When you realize life is finite, you stop re-reading and start getting on with reading what you can in what time you have left.