Literature

Constantly. I read Harry Potter every year (despite any misgivings I have about the author), lately to my kid before putting them down to sleep.

The God of Small Things, LoTR, the Hobbit, Dune, the Foundation series, the Nightrunner series (by Lynn Flewelling), the Left Hand of Darkness. One of my favorite things to do is to reread novels I loved as a child and see if they held up.

Reading a book again, you notice things you've forgotten or missed. And you've changed as a person, so your understanding is different every time.

There are some books I read every five years or so. Every new read resonates differently and kind of helps me figure out where I'm at now. I just feel them so much. They're:

• Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
• Soul Mountain - Gao Xingjian
• The Abyss - Marguerite Yourcenar
• Fictions - Jorge Luis Borges

generally: no, unless they have something worth repeatedly highlighting or internalizing. i think this is mostly a function of being a non-fiction reader, though, where re-reading wouldn't typically be a thing you do for pleasure so much as retaining the information at all and synthesizing it with other stuff.

I reread if I really liked something and once such a long time has passed that I forgot 90% of it. My memory isn‘t great, so I think at least 7 years maybe is when that happens.

@TimTheEnchanter the only book(s) I re-read is The Lord of the Rings.

I only reread, when reading a book to a child. Otherwise rereading is very rare for me.

I do like to read some very generic fantasy genres, like for example Isekais/Portal Fantasies or fan fictions. Novels in that area are so similar to each other, you may as well count that as reading the same thing over and over again. Each novel has its own twists and strengths though, so it always feels fresh.

I have done before, but not often. I’ll reread something if I can remember enjoying it but can’t remember why

I reread books all the time. I have several I go back to regularly from my preteen/teen years. It's like watching a movie from your childhood, lol, nostalgic and comfortable. I always pick up new/forgotten tidbits .

No. I've probably got a little over 1000 books left in my lifetime given my rate of reading, age and average lifespan.

There are so many books in the world I want to experience. Re-reading a book is a new book I won't read.

Yes, with a 10 year gap. There are too many good books to read to reread the ones I liked on the first read. Always reread the classics first.

I like to reread a loved series/book between reading other things. It helps keep me from getting in a reading slump.

Back before the Internet was really a thing I would sometimes reread some of the few favorite books that I owned. Like a lot of other posters, LotR was a staple though I did find myself skipping through the parts where things got slow. Jurassic Park and the Lost World were another set that I enjoyed every time through.

When I was much younger, I read all of the star wars books that I could get my hands on. A few years after I had stopped reading them, I randomly got bored and decided to check what new stuff had come out. I picked one out and got about 3/4 through before realizing that it was not a new book and that I had read it before. So much for retention!

Honestly, I Have yet to try such thing. Partially, because I have always something new to read, but hmm... Maybe I will try doing so later. Who knows, might be fun :D

When I was a kid I read Harry Potter 6 times forward and once backwards (going chapter by chapter starting with book 7)

Now it's hard to justify rereading a book when there are so many books on my reading list (and on my shelf) that I haven't read yet.

Though I have read HPMoR twice because I was going to recommend it to someone but wanted to check if it was as good as I remembered. Read the first few chapters and then got sucked in and read the whole thing.

There are a few books I like to relive every now and then. For me, it's a guilty pleasure, to be honest. Wish I could do it more often, and for more books.

The ones that come to mind are Little Brother, by mr. Doctorow, Sandman by mr. Gaiman (mostly the Death chapters) and... Let's see... Ah, yes, Neuromancer, because I'm a sucker for mainstream books, and that's the one that got me through life.

Never did for novels, but I often re-read light novels, manga and artbooks.

Yep, totally do. I'm usually on the lookout for something new, but I have no fault with rereading a book when the mood comes up. A lot of my reasons seem to line up with yours: it can be a good decompressor, the novelty kinda returns after a while, certain books are Comfort Books. Besides that, I think there's already a default understanding for games being replayed and TV and movies being rewatched. Why does reading have to be any different if I don't want it to be 😅?

There's also the utility in doing so with textbooks or literature I read for professional reasons. Sure, manuals focused on tech rather than practices and technique might not be as evergreen, but even tech specific manuals often have specific strategies that could be worth taking the time to get a reminder of. Just gotta make sure that information is indeed still applicable and hasn't been deprecated somehow.

Sometimes! My favourite series I've reread twice. Which at nearly 50 books (at the time) was quite the endeavour.

Yeah I do. Or relisten as I tned to with fiction prefer audiobooks these days.

One reason is with series I'll redo the last book when the new one is about to come out. To refresh the story in my mind or to simply get back in the mood/headspace of the story.