But at heart, I'm a re-reader.
I've been a Trollope reader for years and, even more, a Trollope re-reader.
As I've written here before, I'm not much of a re-reader.
Adult, child, new reader or multiple re-reader – just open it up and let a very unquiet stream of nonsense (in its finest sense) carry you away.
Yet if my admittedly unscientific research on Facebook is anything to go by, furtive re-readers are everywhere in our midst.
As researcher Cristel Russell of the American University explained of re-readers in an article published in the Journal of Consumer Research, returning to a book "brings new or renewed appreciation of both the object of consumption and their self".
Though, much like Taylor Swift, J.K. Rowling has never needed to make her work available via ereading subscriptions to get them in front of new readers, the greater availability should be a boon to devoted readers and re-readers of the series.
The reader, the viewer, and the re-reader can take cues from caregivers who ease the way to acceptance.
Re "When Readers Speak Out, Can Anyone Hear Them?" (Feb.
Sites including Wired, GQ, and Forbes have used one or more of these strategies to re-monetize readers who were blocking ads.
