/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.21621729]

How do you not forget what you read shortly after reading it?

[Anonymous No.21621761]

Push through and take plenty of naps. I ran into the same problem when I first started reading about a year ago. You'll be fine.

[Anonymous No.21621812]

>>21621761
This. Read audiobooks while you nap. You retain it better.

[Anonymous No.21621830]

>>21621729
You absorb it subconsciously

[Anonymous No.21621832]

>>21621729
write a personal book review/summary

[Anonymous No.21621853]

>>21621729
If it's actually clever or interesting I will memorize every word but if it's nothing special I will forget it immediately so it depends. I remember all of the Plato dialogues but I am going to remember none of the Catalogue of Ships for instance.

[Anonymous No.21621874]

>>21621729
interact with the text anon. annotate your books, keep a commonplace book, write a little about each book after you finish it, find discussion groups, etc etc. the more connections you can form the more it’ll stick

[Anonymous No.21621912]

Things worth remembering will stick in your head. Maybe you’re reading too much at once. I read 25-50 pages a day and that’s pretty good for me

[Anonymous No.21621928]

>>21621729
I read 5-20 pages at a time and take a 5-10 minute break to think about it

[Anonymous No.21621955]

emerson has a good food analogy for this
>I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

[Sage No.21621991]

How do you not nap what you work out shortly after exerting yourself?

[Anonymous No.21622197]

>>21621729
By remembering it.

[Anonymous No.21622215]

>>21621729
You have to know that what you're reading has meaning and worth, if you don't have a photographic memory, like most people. If you're forgetting what you've read, that tells you a lot about your interests. Your own mind is betraying your true nature.