Pluggers by Rick McKee for August 15, 2024

So????

Except it is the large print version.

Which maes it easier to figure out whodunnit.

It also sometimes works with a movie or a TV episodes.

Some books deserve and demand rereading! There’s one book I have that I’ve read half a dozen times.

Well you ate Pizza before …. And you will eat it again ;-)

What book doggie be reading?

That’s why books are called “Classics”: they’re meant to be re-read, because as you age you’re aware of different things. The book may be th same, but you’re different.

I’ve done that a number of times. Some books are just so good!

And what’s wrong with that ? Considering the inane drivel and sex soaked pages they are publishing these days. There are several series of books that I have read 6 or 7 (or more) and enjoy them just as much now as I did then I first read them ! ! !

First book I read cover to cover without putting down was “Marathon Man” by William Goldman. I’ve reread it numerous times. Each time I still read it cover to cover without setting it down. I always make sure I have nothing going on when I start it, figuring it will happen again. It’s about time to break it out again.

I have many books I re-read every decade or so, although I do buy new authors from time to time.

The last fifteen+ years of my working career involved a lot of travel and I would end up taking a half-a-suitcase of books to read — as a working-parent-also-going-to-school I hadn’t had any time to read for fun or relaxation and so I used the plane-and-motel time to “catch-up.”

This was before we had electronic books. Once Kindle and Nook, etc. came along, I saw the advantage of being able to carry dozens of books in my backpack. I also figured that at some time in the future I would be having to move to a smaller house or be hospitalized or bedridden and having my favorite books on a device I could hold instead of on shelves in a library would be a pretty good idea. So I started collecting my favorite authors and genres and tried out a lot of the free or inexpensive new options.

The advantage was that I now have around 1500+ books in one tiny place — as well as options to rent others for a short period of time. I have also discovered a few new authors that I do enjoy.

The disadvantage is that the “library” on my device, containing the 1500+ books I purchased, is not really mine. I can’t arrange the shelves as I want. Periodically, some software geek decides to “upgrade” and my shelves get tossed around and reordered [not reorganized]. I can’t arrange the books by topic, correct misspellings in names or titles, or regroup a set of books under the correct author’s name. Very frustrating.

Of course, now one can access a library and download a book at will so the only reason I need a gizmo is to have a place to download the book to. But, that’s essentially one-book-at-a-time and it’s rather awkward and time-consuming to peruse when one doesn’t know exactly what book they want to read. And I’ve already paid for the 1500+ books. . .

Pluggers read?

Don’t suppose he’s reading “Cat Sense”?

Even so, they’ll go ahead and finish it.

I remember buying and reading the same paperback three different times in the same decade. It was “The Black Star Passes” by John W. Campbell, and I didn’t realize I had already read it until I was about halfway through. But I have deliberately re-read “The Lord of the Rings” over sixty times since I discovered it in my high school library back in the early ’70s. Every time I read it I notice some detail I missed before, or certain dialog or descriptions strike me differently.

Of course there are books that you want to savor repeatedly. Books that left so little impression that you can get halfway through before you notice you’ve read them before are a different matter.

I have about 400 hundred books. I re-read most of them every ten years or so. I don’t buy mysteries.

actually, yes we do. Why would you think otherwise? We probably read more than you yungees.

… and the second time he bought a copy of it!

I wonder if he remembers the ending.

It took him halfway thru to recognize he’d already read it? Didn’t do a great job the first time..

I read one book twice in one summer. I remembered nothing of the first reading. And after I returned it the second time, I picked it off the shelf and considered reading it as it looked interesting. All I remember is something about being smaller than a hat, maybe?

Keep reading to see if the ending has changed over the 10 years.

Read War and Peace, twice. Second time was a new translation and some details did seem to have been changed.

Sometimes I buy two (or more) copies of a favorite book. A hardback to treasure and a paperback to read to pieces and replace as needed (usually from used book stores).

I was always thrilled when the Tab book order came to the school.

We are both readers.

Our home office (second largest bedroom) has 5 full height bookcases and a half height one. They hold history books (colonial reenactors so alot of same for reference), also other reference books plus husband’s books, plus books of mine from when I was young which I kept – by and about her with duplicate copies of some books of hers.

Our bedroom has a full height bookcase which holds husband’s James Bond books plus related reference books.

Our studio has 3 full height book cases and a part height one. We keep our books on the various crafts we work at in this room, also our cookbooks, My Louisa May Alcott collection (by and about her including antique books) are here are my Laura Ingalls Wilder collection are in this room also.

In our basement we have 2 bookcases with other assorted books of husband’s including ones related to his former work.

In his woodshop/our garage he has his collection of woodworking books.