I've read 120 books and I don't remember a single one. Most of the books I've read I can't tell you a single thing about it. As soon I close the book it completely disappears from my mind. For a few of them I might remember a very specific historical detail or a single concept but for the rest of them it's like I didn't even read them

>>24507388 (OP)
reading too fast/not paying attention to the words

I've read well over 10 times that many books and remember most of them in great detail, takes about a decade for them to start getting fuzzy.

>>24507388 (OP)
120 books read since COVID it's not that bad imo. At least you are reading

>>24507388 (OP)
This is also true of videogames, like I played Deus Ex in the early 00s and replayed it again last year, I had forgotten almost everything, it was like playing a new game again, I only remembered the part in Paul's apartment where you get ambushed and maybe some tiny areas here and there but most of the game was like playing a new game. It's just how our brains are wired, old stuff gets dumped to make space for new stuff or something

>>24507388 (OP)
Yeah apparently you have to take notes and do spaced repetition to bring shit with you

>>24507388 (OP)
So you're not very good at reading.

>>24507388 (OP)
Take notes and watch videos on the book (by actual professors not video essays or whatever by tranny book tubers). I have no idea what you are reading or what you are trying to take away from it so I don’t know how to help.

>>24507388 (OP)
Wish I was like this, then I could read my favourite book over and over and still feel the same sense of wonder.

>>24508485
No you don't. I had the same thought. Then I had a stroke and my memory became Swiss cheese.
For the last six years I've struggled to remember the title of a story I finished reading five minutes before.
I've noticed a slight improvement after ditching butter and margarine for coconut oil, which is easily broken down into ketones for brain food.
I am still nothing like I used to be.
Don't wish bad luck on yourself.

>>24508495
Have you tried nicotine?

>>24507388 (OP)
Looks up a summary of some of the books. You probably remember more than you think...or maybe not.

>>24507388 (OP)
Sounds like its over for you but there's nothing you can do to change it. Dealt a bad hand at birth

>>24507388 (OP)
Speedreaders be like

>>24508485
>Wish I was like this, then I could read my favourite book over and over and still feel the same sense of wonder.
This is such a forced meme. If the book is actually good, there is more to it than the surface and knowing the plot and the characters to start with you can focus more on the subtext and gain more than a first reading.