There is a selection of books that I have read a couple dozen times, then I got the audiobook versions. Some books make no sense until you reread them and finally notice the clues that were left behind on the very first pages.

It's like with any other medium, the first run through is for entertainment. For example I watched a veritasium video about quantum physics. Fascinating. But I couldn't explain anything because I didn't understand it. It takes several watch to actually understand the concepts.

It makes me wonder about the power of religious zealots being simply having read a book, considered profound, many times. And I’m curious about which book I would choose.

> Christmas is devoted to reading books we all know perfectly well.

Ha, this seems counterfactual to how the americans (traveling around recently and I don’t remember seeing anyone with a book open).