@artkavanagh as a book lover, I struggled with this! He’s probably right, but I also think that people (and I include myself in this) don’t go about it in the right way. Have you seen or read Susan Wise Bauer’s The Well-Trained Mind? Or Mortimer Adler’s How To Read A Book? There’s certainly a process if one wants to retain and comprehend. And of course unless you’ve got a photographic memory you’re never going to remember everything. It would be interesting to see if historically people complained about this. Or if they were simply grateful for the information. Perhaps now we are at the age of the information glut we’re really only able to question the medium.