In my group, which comes from the Denver group, we do steps yearly. That's regardless of whether you have a year sober, less, 5 years, 10 years, 20, 30, etc. It works for us.
We do not get into a big contest about what the book says. We rarely cite it. What we do is read a passage of our choosing and discuss our current experience in it. It works for us.
We don't sit and contemplate the meaning of each and every passage. We sort of let it hit our body... let it absorb and get on with it. It works for us.
We do 3 column inventories. It works for us.
Jaitch, Chuck C said that Bill used "Rarely" instead of "Never" because if it said "Never" then some smartassed alcoholic would take that and say, "Oh yeah? Well I'll show you!" That works for me.