>read book
>forget 98% of it a week later
what's even the point

>what's even the point
Exactly. Reading is retarded.

>>24530917 (OP)
>wash, rinse, repeat.
Soon - and it really is - the concrete will become like a sponge. Then, you don't want to stop.

Just read Battlefield Earth and then read Battlefield Earth again and then read Battlefield Earth, and the Battlefield Earth. Then start all over and do it again.

>>24530917 (OP)
You have a brain tumor.

>>24530917 (OP)
eggy
hope he doin good

>have sex
>forget what it tasted or felt like
What's even the point

Better rhetoric if you read a lot
If you're just doing it occasionally there's literally no point

>eat
>get hungry again
What's the point?

>>24530957
>tasted

>>24530957
So you can have it again and remember. What is history if not divine amnesia?

>>24530917 (OP)
Idk ask Corporal E. T. Flood.

>>24530917 (OP)
the point is that 2%

>>24530917 (OP)
I absorb the important parts and they stick with me forever

IS THAT THE FUCKING EGG

>>24530917 (OP)
I understand the feeling, desu. That’s why I keep all the books I’ve read recently on the same shelf and every now and then I go book by book and try to remember the plot, characters, and ending.

>>24530917 (OP)
you vill eeet ze bugz

>>24530917 (OP)
Let me guess, you're a plottard.

Why are you forgetting 98% of it? Doesn't sound like you READ the book. You just glanced at words on a page.

>>24530917 (OP)
>15.2
>The Master said, 'Ts'ze, you think, I suppose, that I am one who learns many things and keeps them in memory?'
>Tsze-kung replied, 'Yes,— but perhaps it is not so?'
> 'No,' was the answer; 'I seek a unity all-pervading.'

You'll probably still have learned something from it and might recall it when its useful

>>24530931
Why Battlefield Earth though?

>>24531340
This guy got it.

You probably remember more than you think. Read a synopsis of a book you read it'll refresh your memory.

>>24530917 (OP)
take notes

>read book
>look up everything I don't know (that I find interesting) in detail
>make notes
>put in anki
>reread book later (1+ year)
>remember 99%
better to know 1 book well than 100 in fragments

>>24530917 (OP)
Memory doesn’t work like that. You need certain triggers in order for recall to function properly. It’s why people will smell cinnamon and remember scenes from their childhood and shit. I can literally go weeks without thinking about certain philosophers I’ve read or history texts but if I get a start on it I can usually piece it all together pretty quickly. Another thing, it is not a very usual thing for people to remember all the minutiae about everything they’ve ever read in their life. Don’t beat yourself up about it. It’s a superhuman task. That’s why books won out over the oral tradition in every society they were invented in.

>>24533488
>That’s why books won out over the oral tradition in every society they were invented in.
stopped reading right there.

>>24530917 (OP)
>Whatever impressions were made on the student’s mind by the courses of instruction, hardly a trace of them appears in his later authorship. Yet this may only imply thorough assimilation; for he can never be classed among those who have gone forth from classic halls to afflict mankind with the bad breath of ill-digested scholarship. “I have forgotten the books I have read,” said Emerson; “and so I have the dinners I have eaten; but they both helped make me.”

>>24533492
Well it is the end of the post

>>24530917 (OP)
Speedreaders be like

>>24530917 (OP)
>he doesn't write notes or keep tabs on whatever the fuck happened in the literature he reads
>he doesn't hastily draw maps of a given environment as described by the author to plot out where characters are situated
>he doesn't cross-reference his findings with similar discussions and themes within the bibliography of the author in question
>same as above but within the cultural zeitgeists and historicity the author was influenced by
You just reminded me I need to do this shit for The Alexiad

>>24534037
Too much work.

Once as a child he had sat upon a yellow dune by the sea in the middle of the blue and hot
summer day, trying to fill a sieve with sand, because some cruel cousin had said, "Fill this sieve
and you'll get a dime!" `And the faster he poured, the faster it sifted through with a hot
whispering. His hands were tired, the sand was boiling, the sieve was empty. Seated there in the
midst of July, without a sound, he felt the tears move down his cheeks.

>>24530925
fpbp

it's all meaningless, better to realize this now

>>24534605
You can spread it out across months, man, no rush. Hell, you could even do it while reading the respective literature
>1-2 sessions to read a chapter
>half a session to write notes
Could even do it exclusively on weekends and still make good progress.

>>24534037
>>24535656
This sounds something for autists who thought college-level English was the greatest experiences of their life, or an elaborate troll.