Poll: How often do you re-read books or novels? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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| | | | Iulia Parvu 
Romania
Local time: 03:46
Member (2022)
English to Romanian
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| Rarely... I guess | Oct 30, 2025 |
Other than the Harry Potter series, which I’ve read 5 or 6 times, I don’t remember reading anything more than once.
| | | | Gregor Trebec
Slovenia
Local time: 02:46
English to Slovenian
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| 2-3 books per year | Oct 30, 2025 |
2-3 books per year
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I often reread a few pages of poetry books, but as far as I can remember, I have only reread one prose book. I had loved that book when I first read it, so years later I reread it only to be disappointed and not even understand why I had liked it so much...
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IrinaN (X)
United States
Local time: 19:46
English to Russian
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| World classics - constantly | Oct 30, 2025 |
The ones written (AND translated!!!) between 5 BC and 20 AD - over and over again, not necessarily the whole books but at least my favorite pages.
Thankfully, the rows of them, a bit worn but alive, breathing and full of memories on the shelves are right in front of me; my good old-fashioned paper friends and allies, supporters and saviors in bad moments.
Modern literature - not so often, about 90% - never. Not because it is a bad read but it feels enough. Maybe becau... See more The ones written (AND translated!!!) between 5 BC and 20 AD - over and over again, not necessarily the whole books but at least my favorite pages.
Thankfully, the rows of them, a bit worn but alive, breathing and full of memories on the shelves are right in front of me; my good old-fashioned paper friends and allies, supporters and saviors in bad moments.
Modern literature - not so often, about 90% - never. Not because it is a bad read but it feels enough. Maybe because everything wise and enlightening has already been told by the classics a long time ago and in much fewer and clearer words ; what's left is the plots, which do not require more than one sitting. ▲ Collapse
| | | | | things worth reading again | Oct 30, 2025 |
I've read and re-read classics such as works of Dickens, Jane Austen and others.
I now plan to go back to Madame Bovary, as soon as I have time. I read it when I was 18, so I expect I'll see it differently now I am a lot older! I was just out of convent school and had a limited view of life!
| | | | Nadja Balogh
Germany
Local time: 02:46
Member (2007)
Japanese to German
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| I re-read... | Oct 31, 2025 |
...my Thomas Mann collection recently. I was just a teenager when reading Mann for the first time. I totally loved it but didn't understand much (not that I noticed at the time).
I will probably come back and re-read the lot for a third time in another twenty years.
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I have read my favourite book so often I have lost count. The book was falling apart but a friend had her friend re-bind it.
There are quite a few books I like to re-read in whole or in part sometimes. Sometimes I pick up new things I had missed when I read them the first time; sometimes it is just nice, like meeting a good friend I had not seen in some time. And sometimes it was so long since I first read the book that I have forgotten everything except the fact that I liked it and I can ... See more I have read my favourite book so often I have lost count. The book was falling apart but a friend had her friend re-bind it.
There are quite a few books I like to re-read in whole or in part sometimes. Sometimes I pick up new things I had missed when I read them the first time; sometimes it is just nice, like meeting a good friend I had not seen in some time. And sometimes it was so long since I first read the book that I have forgotten everything except the fact that I liked it and I can enjoy it again as if it were a new book. ▲ Collapse
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