How can I read a book as well as remember it all?

Jonathan Makhanya

studied at University of South Africa

155w ago

Jaydeed and Aaron have covered a great deal of the required points, all that is left now is think and how to it.

One thing you can do is make images for the things you want to remember following some simple rules of memorizing/ memory.
Their being - exaggeration, ridiculosnous, emphasis, movement, association, emphasis, . . etc - and developing familiarity, so when you reread, you have images which you further associate in your head to the book. Then when you think about something particular in the book, you see the image in your mind's eye, interpret it accordingly, which improves comprehension, of the concept/ idea at that point, and also acts as a mnemonic when you see the image without the usual sort of context. But this is so you won't have to relearn the book, but also understand it accurately when you do remember.
The second thing, is when you reread, you should focus more parts that give you trouble. So you start with a light reading, work your way in, in the next reading you focus alot reading parts you didn't understand, and work on improving your understanding, and creating images for your memory, so you can have easier, improved and efficient thinking about the book.

A note on images is they become so familiar to you that have a moment of the slip of the tongue syndrome, see an image and remember, rather than a slip of the tongue syndrome, with no recall whatsoever
 The rest is reading it a minimum of three times, over a decide period of time, and some think significantly about the book or subject of the book( notice the key is to focus on forming a construct or strong association with the book as a whole). Then you can use the method of loci.

Information about forming images and interpreting them:

Say you want to remember the title and author of a book, say David Baldacci's The Winner. You would picture Some athlete, say Juan Smit(rugby player) holding up a giant gleaming gold trophy. Picture it in your mind, if not Juan then any athlete from any similar sport, for example a famous Hockey player. The trophy should be big and heavy, making poor Juan struggle to hold it up, as a result of its weight. This image is memorable, because it is quite unusual. Now form a strong association, with the the title and author by going over it a couple of times. (You should review your images regularly when thinking, in the appropriate context, so as to make it stick).

Ounce you have that make more images, whilst completely forgetting the other image/s focus just what you a thinking about at the moment, "he really did it, the bastard ...", (you now how it is when you read good fiction, reality seems to fade away), and convert into a memorable image just like you did for the title, these images will become your hooks, associated with what happens in the appropriate parts of the book, so you can move easily from one idea to the next.

Or, just use the method of loci, or memory palace to immediately subjectively organize and enforce structure on the images and their locations.

Whichever approach you use good luck, let me know if you gave any Q's.

Jaydeep Vekariya

Blogger, Chartered Accountant

157w ago

It is small effort to make you read and remember. 
Follow this steps 

Read with a purpose.

Skim first.

Get the read­ing mechan­ics right.

Be judi­cious in high­light­ing and note taking.

Think in pictures.

Rehearse as you go along.

Stay within your atten­tion span and work to increase that span.

Rehearse again soon.

Source : http://sharpbrains.com/blog/2009...

Pranab Mishra

works at Kotak Securities

20w ago

Best Question and the Answer will help a lot.

I will give you the Best Techniques which I Was used to remember from book. Because I love to read Books.

Visualization, Marking and Point creation is the Main techniques to remember from Books.

Visualization: When you are reading any of the books, try to visualize and coordinate with some picture or events. If not try to create one which you can remember easily. 
By the way of Visualization you can remember the Important points of the Subjects.

Marking: At the time of Reading, you have to mark the important points and the words which posses value for the subjects.
You can also write/note few points near to the marking as per your understanding.

Point Creation: You have to note down important points of the subjects to remember.

Garland Coulson

30 years as a time management speaker, consultant and coach

88w ago

I find it is quite useful to Mind Map the key principles within a book with the intent of using the mind map the next time I need to apply them.

Faster than going back to the book and books are full of lots of history, reasoning and anecdotes that you don't need when actually applying the principles.

I recently did this for a Value Pricing ebook and it worked great.

Here is a free online course I put together "Introduction to Mind Mapping" that might help.

Muhammad Saad-ul-Haq

studied at Association of Chartered Certified Accountants

157w ago

You just can't, unless you have a freakishly eidetic memory. Our brain lets go off some of our memories for good reasons as the scientists are now coming to the conclusion that forgetting things is healthy for your brain. Ironically, for good memory. :-D

Shashwat Tandon

Quorisity is a Bliss

157w ago

Go with the Indian way my friend. Read it so many times that you memorize every single line in it.

Joan Lee

Stay hungry，stay foolish

157w ago

you just need to read something you're truly interested in(^_^)