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Do you read book/blog entry more than once?

Do you read a particular book more than once?
If you do, what book?

I read books just once because I am afraid that I am wasting my time (by re-reading it again) and that I could spend the time on reading other books. I am sure I am wrong on this, but I just could not do that. (I am sure that I have read book[s] more than once, but I just could not recall it at this moment.)

Let me quote from Philip Gerard's "Writing a Book that makes a Difference":
One test of a book is whether it stands up to rereading.
It's not that books that I have read are not worth re-reading. It's just that I don't want to waste time. I have a stack of books (that's an understatement) that is waiting for me. Read me, please, they plead.

We can extend this to blog. Do you read a particular entry of a blog more than once? Which one?

I keep a list of URL on del.icio.us, browsers bookmarks, and even I created a special tag on my email mailboxes (so that I could grep-it later on). But, I never do that. I hardly re-read blogs (or even emails). I am collecting junk for no reason. That's beside the point. Is there a blog worth re-reading?

What do you think?

(note: Comments on this blog are not moderated. My appology for that, but I am just trying to weed out irrelevant comments/spam.)

Comments

Anonymous said…
My news reader has tag feature. Data, study, and research article go into DATA tag. I need them to build my argument about something. I collect article/entry that worth talking about. It goes to TELLFRIEND tag. I love this tag. I need this when I hang out with my friends. essay, inspiring article go to TOTHINK tag. Those three are my favorite tags.

please consider my tags if you want me to re-read your entry. :)
8:56 AM
Anonymous said…
Do I read a book more than once? I'd say 99% of the time no. Even though you didn't ask, I watch some movies more than once ... and for some good ones, my wife would watch over-and-over again.

How about a blog? Blog contents evolve over time, so comparing book and blog is like apple and orange. Yes, I do subscribe to some blogs ... and this leads to a question to you Pak Budi ... why don't you provide a feed subscription to this blog? Thanks.
1:53 AM
Budi Rahardjo said…
To "anonymous", yes you are right that book probably is closer to movie. I do watch several movies many times.

As to feed subscription of this blog, there is one, but you might want to check Planet GBT instead. It is a agregat of my blogs. (I've got too many of them.) It's in:
planetgbt.priyadi.net.
It is provided by Priyadi.
8:48 AM
Anonymous said…
I think some books really worth rereading. That's because those books contain so many values that I cannot grasp wholly by reading them just once. Furthermore, I once read that generally people forget 70% of the information they receive within 24 hours.

Of course, in most cases I won't reread the books word by word. Simply scanning the books through the important points can trigger my memory back to life and sometimes also gives me new perspectives.
5:49 PM
Anonymous said…
my favourite books :
- the magic of thinking big by David Schwartz.
- Your best life now by Joel Osteen.
3:28 PM
Anonymous said…
The answer is yes...for certain topics i used to read blog entries more than once...
8:59 AM
Anonymous said…
Yeah you absolutelly right.. i agree with you pak budi. I appreciates if pak budi create blog with my blog host at http://www.indoblogger.com. From Bandung with looove
6:59 PM
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