Hello readers and welcome to our Weekly FAQ thread! Our topic this week is: How do I stay focused and remember more of what I'm reading?
We've all experienced reading 10 pages of a book and then realizing that we haven't actually read it. Or putting a book down and forgetting what was going on. What do you do to try and counteract that?
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Not multitasking is a good start! Have a quiet environment or one that’s just stimulating enough (some people like to read in coffee shops or have background music).
If it’s frequent distracting, using dyslexia tools and similar like immersive reading, audiobooks, and covering most of the page so only one or two lines is visible can help.
Taking notes can be a great way or journalling. Ex. Summarize key plot points, motivations, where you think it’s going, if you enjoy the prose or characters, and if not is that intentional from the author/what was the purpose etc..
Practice too. If you’re new to reading you’ll probably hold onto less. As you read more often it will get easier with time without any particular intentional skill building. Maybe start with just 15 minutes and a time and increase to larger periods of reading. More frequent reading can help too. Sometimes if I only read once a week it’s hard to remember what was going on, particularly if I have other books or I’m watching a similar genre of TV show.