Here's what I mean by that.
If a book is sizeable, you start reading normally. When you arrive to, say, page 300, you start your second reading from the beginning, but you keep your first reading normally.
From that point on you do your first and second reading of the book in parallel, like this: you read 1-20, then 300-320, then 20-40, then 320-340, then 40-60, then 340-360, etc…
If the book has 600 pages, when you finish your first reading, you'll be at the page 300 of your second reading.
From this point, you just finish your second reading (300-600) normally.
Why would any sane person do this?
Well, sometimes in large books we forget what was going on in the begging. Or why some things from the early parts of the book are relevant to the things in the late parts of the book.
This kind of reading would allow you to directly compare the same characters at different stages of their life and get a better idea about the book in its entirety.
I never did this so far, but I'm entertaining the idea, if anything, just as an experiment.
by hn-mc
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If I read a book and keep reading it then I remember these things throughout the reading. If I put the book down and came back a year later I would just restart it. But as long as I read a book within 2-3 months I remember and can make those connections. If you cannot, then this might be a worthwhile endeavor.