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Does anyone else forget most things they read? Sometimes I just a re-read a passage from a book I've read a few months before and think 'fuck, how could I forget such great writing'.
My long-term memory is actually good, but mostly I just remember what the page looked like instead what was written in there.
Yes, unfortunately.
I just reread Religion for Infidels for example and couldn't remember 90% of the details. Obviously I remembered the general gist.
With novels I remember them more vividly for some reason.
>>8148400
This is why they made you take notes at school, or did you forget that too?
>>8148400
yes. no.
I forget the details -im human.
But I think its not possible to forget anything, you just have something like a structure of priorities in your mind. If you really like a 'detail', because you really like it, its not a detail anymore, and you remember it.
I find myself remembering details -actual details, things that i didnt value at the moment- 15 years later.
I have this problem. I tend to remember things I read on a computer screen far more clearly than written words on a piece of paper. I can make connections when reading identical lines on a computer that I can't make when reading them in a book. I can recognize the beauty of a particular passage when reading it on a screen but not inside the book. It's a peculiar dilemma
>>8148421
wow thats really particular.
I have the exact opposite situation going on for me, and I think it works that way for most people. People'' meaning: readers -1% of people.
>>8148419
OP here. I think the problem is not that I don't remember particular details but that books sometimes just don't leave an impression in my memory strong enough. Because expanding your general understanding about things is all about relating new concepts with older ones.
