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How shallow are the books that the author of this piece reads, that he can keep their entire contents in his head? I am pretty sure I can't keep the entire contents of my personal library in my head. And I don't even have that many books. (Around 20, between CS and math books.)

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I don’t keep them in my head at all :) In fact, my memory is quite bad except for procedual stuff like programming techniques. That’s why I process and store notes so extensively.

The fiction work I read that I cannot remember were particularly shallow. At one point I threw out everything where I couldn't even remember one or two plot elements.

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