Arghh!! Accidental Re-Reads/Re-Buys?

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Arghh!! Accidental Re-Reads/Re-Buys?
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Fri, 10-28-2005 - 11:08am

Ackk!!

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Fri, 10-28-2005 - 11:34am

I've only done this twice. Once was Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman. Now in my defense the book came out with a new cover when I bought it the second time for the movie release. However, I noticed pretty quickly that I'd read it before didn't take me the hole book. ;o)


There was a book by Beatrice Small that I checked out from the Library several times. Not sure why, maybe I liked the cover or the title but again noticed fairly quickly that I had read it before. Again in my defense it was when I was going through a historical romance period and after awhile covers and story lines all start to sound the same.

Gretchen


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Registered: 09-01-2005
Fri, 10-28-2005 - 12:48pm
I have done that.I do it at least once a year.Drives me crazy.

 

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Fri, 10-28-2005 - 1:18pm
I've done it a few times
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 10-28-2005 - 4:10pm

LoL, I've done it a few times.

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Fri, 10-28-2005 - 6:54pm

Hi Gretchen ~


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Fri, 10-28-2005 - 8:01pm
I've done it, too. I blame menopause, it's my all-purpose goof up excuse for every bozo thing I do anymore. I know I NEED to be diligent about keeping a list of the books I read, it's just too hard to keep all those titles in your head.


Edited 10/28/2005 8:02 pm ET by joannaran

 


~~joannaran~~

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Fri, 10-28-2005 - 9:38pm

I've done that once or twice. When you read as many books as all of us do, it's not surprising. Unless you want to walk around with a mile-high thick notebook of everything you've ever read in your life, I can't think of any other way to prevent it from happening, LOL.


Look at it this way. Obviously the book must be a good one, or it wouldn't have struck your interest (again), and now you can give it away as a present or do a charitable deed and donate it to the library so others can enjoy it, LOL.

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Sun, 10-30-2005 - 7:33am
I just did that. I spent the whole book thinking I;d read it before but I finished it anyhow. Sometimes it's hard because publishers will re-release a book with a new cover and different blurb on the back. I was just cruising the library book shelves and found a Barbara Michael's book that didn't sound familiar and I was really racking my brains. I thought I had ALL of her books. So I just had to borrow it. ANd yup there it was on my bookshelf- different cover and a different blurb.

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Mon, 10-31-2005 - 12:13am
I do believe that I am doing that now.
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Mon, 10-31-2005 - 10:16am

Hi, Linda!!!


Oh, how nice to see you again !!

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