- Arthur Schopenhauer (1851)

But I wanted to make an additional point myself, which is: the key part of reading for information is not consumption, but rather memory. It doesn't matter how many books you read if you only remember a small percentage of each one. Like any educated person, I've read thousands of books in my lifetime. And yet I could probably only name the details of a few dozen. This strikes me as horribly inefficient.

As such, I've been trying to incorporate Spaced Repetition (with Anki) into the reading process itself. My initial idea is to do two things:

- add specific lines and information into Anki. E.g. quotes, statistics, and so on.

- write a brief one-paragraph summary of each chapter or, in shorter books, each page. Then add this summary to Anki.

So far, I've been able to recall far more information about the books I've read, even if it takes 5-10x times longer to read them. Overall, I'd consider that an effective sacrifice.