Reading and Forgetting

Pamela Paul’s memories of reading are less about words and more about the experience. “I almost always remember where I was and I remember the book itself. I remember the physical object,” says Paul, the editor of The New York Times Book Review, who reads, it is fair to say, a lot of books. “I remember the edition; I remember the cover; I usually remember where I bought it, or who gave it to me. What I don’t remember—and it’s terrible—is everything else.

I'm okay with some of the article, it's from The Atlantic and about remembering what you read, and I recall a post I wrote on here about orality and memory, which the article touches on as well.  But most of it no, and in another post I wrote about memories of books past where words brought a life flooding back.