That's me watching movies. Books stick with me better and longer than movies. After some time passes though, unless it was really a good book, I don't remember anything more than bits and pieces of it.

I read so many books on my iPad, one after another, and now and then one will stick with me, but I go through them so fast,. Addicted to reading!

My problem is that I download the same book and don't realize it until I get about 20 pages into it. Nuts! I have learned (sort of) to check to see what has been archived before I order a favorite author. I also forget the book's title about half-way through and have to get back to the home page to see what it is.

I actually prefer books that I can hold in my hand; on a cruise, that is not always practical. This year, we will cruise at total of 53 days - that's a lot of reading.

Always. And, if someone asks me what I have read recently, I often find it hard to recall.

If I happen to read a book that I already read, I will realize it as I am reading it. But, I still would not be able to recall when comes next. But, it feel annoying to me, so I usually just return it.

I too have not gotten into ebooks. I check the NY Times best seller list on Sunday and put holds online to my local library of my choices. They email me when the books are available. I can also manage my account online.

Yes, I'm guilty of this. I have even bought it a second and third time only to think to myself this is so familiar and upon looking see that I already had a copy of it in my collection. Same book different cover. I have given all my books to the local library as i needed to unload many of them. Must have had over 1500 of them. Mostly paperbacks. Now on to the hardbacks. the library was so glad to get them.

That's why after I read an e-book I leave it at 100%, then I know that book has been read. I call a book a good read if I think about it after it's been read and can remember things that happened. The one thing I'm bad about is knowing the title of the book I'm reading. I guess I don't care about that. I read about three books a week.

Me too pipsmom. Once they updated or did something to a book and it didn't say I had already bought it so I bought it again. I wasn't too happy about that. It was a cheap book so I didn't bother to tell them.

Yes, but with hard-cover books! Makes me so mad when I get several chapters in and feel there's something vaguely familiar....And with "real" books there is the advantage of having the cover picture (usually) to trigger a memory. Well, it's supposed to work like that. And yes, publishers do change the pictures to get you to buy the book again--ugh.

I am so thankful for the Amazon reminder that I already purchased a book. I have probably 1000 on my amazon account, only download to the tablet a few at a time. We leave them at 100 % too. For both of us I created a new folder in the kindle app labeled already read, we can move the book to that folder. But of course he forgets to do it. We both definitely have started a book over again I hate when I do that. I get tons of great free books which is wonderful because my husband goes through books so quickly. We rarely actually pay for a book.

Not so much books, but movies. I will rent a movie because it looks good to me and once I get into it, I remember that I have seen it before.

Used to buy books on both Kindle and ibooks - until I bought a couple twice.

I enjoy rereading books. After a year or so, they are like new again. If I read something I don't like, I quickly get rid of it.

Gosh I am glad I am not alone in my inability to recall titles, characters and authors very well. Some I do! Some I need a nudge. Some...I've re-read most of the book searching for what I know will be the indication of an end. Hopeless! But, I read constantly...even when I fall asleep and continue my own version of where the story went or is going. Quite confusing sometimes...and funny.

Yes, and the beauty of this is that if I reread a mystery, I don't remember whodunnit.

All the time! Even some TV shows too

Glad to see it's not just me. Another thing I do is if I buy book #2 of a series I have to reread book #1 so I know who the characters are that I am reading

After I read a book, I remember the story line for about 3 years. If its a really good story, one that impacts me, I remember it longer.

I once bought a book written by Jonathan Frantzen. I vaguely recalled he was recommended by Oprah Winfrey.. I was really enjoying the book, got about half way in, and then remembered all the details of the rest of the book. Why I didn't remember having read it sooner, I don't know.

When I shopped at bookstores, I always checked the publication date to keep myself from buying a book I'd already read. It's so much harder with e-books because they throw all of the re-issued books in with the new books. Amazon has the worst search function ever. I, too, am thankful that Amazon tells me when I've already purchased a book especially since I pre-order a lot of them.

A little off-topic...are you as annoyed with the rising price of e-books as I am? Almost all of them are $14.99 when newly published which I find to be way overpriced. I've started adding the ones I want to my wish list instead of pre-ordering to see when they decrease in price.

I've noticed the surge in pricing also and think it's outrageous. I'm doing the same thing as you, Fun2BHere, in putting them on my wish list. Also downloading the sample to get an idea of whether or not I'd like the book. Nothing more frustrating than to pay nearly fifteen bucks for an ebook, only to find out it's a stinker.

I am glad, also, that Amazon reminds me that I already have a book. I have so many, I can't tell you how many! And I still have all of my paper backs, too. I do need to start taking them in to the library donation box. I have a few favorite authors and series that I read over and over. I am slowly adding those to the Kindle. Yes, I know I am paying for them a second time, but I can have them with me where ever I go, and I can't do that with the paper backs in the RV.

Pipsmom, just last month I returned an ebook for the first time ever. The book was non-fiction, had gotten great reviews, was high-priced and I made the mistake of not downloading a sample. I couldn't believe how poorly the book was written. Amazon gave me full credit. I won't make a practice of returning books, but I appreciated Amazon for taking the book back in this case.

Tami_ohio, I've purchased my favorite books as ebooks, too. I love that I don't have to store them physically and that silverfish can't munch on an ebook.

I have about a dozen books hanging out on my Kindle. Stated them and got bored. I know I should delete.

If one is a frequent reader, and even if one keeps a list of books read, it is easy to try a second reading especially is the ending remains a mystery. We're all human, and there are so many great books out there!

For me it just about never happens. I have always had a good memory for books I've read or movies I've seen. I may not remember the all of the names of all of the characters but for just about any book or movie if given a few minutes to think, I can remember the bulk of the plot and quite a few specific details. Even so, I frequently re-read many of the book I own, since although the book's content is unchanged, I have changed, and there the meaning of the content will be different.

I have been annoyed sometimes when I've bought a copy of a book thinking it was the next in a series by an author, only to find that its one I already have that has been re-released with a new cover. Or it is two shorter books by that author, re-released as a single larger work.

I don't think I have ever seen a Kindle book for more the $10. Most of the books on my wish list are from $2.99 to $4.99. Although I have a couple that are $7.99 and $9.99. I know eventually they come down in price and I am a very patient person. Just today a book I put on my list back in March went from $3.99 to .99. Bought it immediately.

Has anyone else used this?

https://www.bookbub.com/home/

If you go to this site and enter your email address, daily you get an email (screenshot below) identifying 5-10 books on sale @ Amazon & ibooks.

When you click on the button in the email it takes you directly to the Amazon or ibooks site.

While I tend to be suspicious of things like this (middlemen), I have used it and it works fine, only sends me this one email daily, no additional spam.

Yes, totally forget...movies too. I never understood people who could recite passages from books or movies they watched years ago. There are some that stick out in my mind, though. The other day I was reading a book about animals that start killing all the humans they come into contact with, including peoples' pet dogs. I got up in the middle of the night to use the restroom and there is my dog, Chewie, who sleeps up against my door. He gave me a weird look and it kind of creeped me out. lol. Went to the bathroom, got back in bed and started reading again, but apparently when I put my shoes up that night I didn't close the door to my closet all the way. I remembered a Stephen King story called "The Boogyman", it starts with a closet that's cracked open just a little. Well, I had to get up again and close that dang door. I read that story when I was a teenager and it still creeps me out. I'm 53 now and cannot sleep with a closet open. I don't remember most of the story but I do remember it wasn't good for the characters in it. I may have to reread it just for the fun of it. It was from "Nightshift"...a bunch of short stories and I used to own it. I'm now reading one of his son's book of short stories, "20th Century Ghosts". Not sure I like him as much as his father.

I have always been an avid reader. And have been re-reading books for years, but not on purpose. I start reading it and it will seem vaguely familiar, but really can't remember it. Actually I am having a strange deja vu feeling with the book I am reading now. I think when you reach a certain age and have favorite authors you like, you are bound to have repeats. It also happens with movies. We can't remember which ones we saw.

I remember the GOOD books, but not the ordinary whodunits or family drama novels. The last two books that I loved were: All the Light We Can Not See by Anthony Doerr, and Station Eleven (don't remember the author at the moment).

I misread mdln's post at first, and thought she was talking about bookbob.com a service where instead of reading a book you simply ask me for a detailed synopsis of the book. :-) I don't remember signing up to provide that service.

While my memory for movies and books is quite good, I often forget peoples names sometimes as quickly as it takes them to say their name. I am also not so good at time-related items, as in remembering that I have a meeting today at 11:00, but not remembering that until 3:00 P.M.

My wife will often forget everything about a movie even by the next day. She'll remember that we saw a movie, but not remember the title, or any of the main actors, or even the broadest description of the plot. On the other hand, several times in the past she has been driving to a horse show where she has to perform a new dressage test, and she'll have me read it to her, once. And she is then able to repeat the entire test from memory, and then perform it in the dressage ring after arriving at the show.

Haha, saw this post & reading the original query made me think of a joke told by comic Marc Maron: reading things feels like you're thinking...