I'd most likely want the ability to acquire the "experience of reading" contained by books through touch. I'd go to libraries and touch every book on subjects that I want to improve on and move on to the next library until I'm practically a master of those subjects.
Least? Not being able to shut it off. Any time I pick up a book that I want to read for enjoyment, it will feel as if I'm rereading a book that I'm already familiar with.
i have always thought about this very same power. i briefly considered adding the caveat that i would absorb all knowledge in the book rather than just having the same knowledge as if i had read it, but i actually think it would be perhaps a bit better to just have the experience of reading the book, that way you can forget some of the books you have read years ago and reexperience the good ones. still... i would run down the halls of a library with my hands running across the spines of every book at least once or twice.
I've thought about absorbing all knowledge, but it seems a bit too implausible. I feel like if I allowed myself that, my mind would function more like an encyclopedia than memory. I suppose you could recall the information when prompted (ex. a test), but your daily life would overall be the same. Instead of stumbling onto a previous memory, I'd feel like you'd have to search up a keyword in your brain to think of something and rather than abstractly thinking of an idea, you'd be basically reciting the words.
I, too, would run down libraries, but only in the sections that I'm interested in. I have no desire to clutter my brain about subjects I do not care for.
I'd most likely want the ability to acquire the "experience of reading" contained by books through touch. I'd go to libraries and touch every book on subjects that I want to improve on and move on to the next library until I'm practically a master of those subjects.
Least? Not being able to shut it off. Any time I pick up a book that I want to read for enjoyment, it will feel as if I'm rereading a book that I'm already familiar with.
i have always thought about this very same power. i briefly considered adding the caveat that i would absorb all knowledge in the book rather than just having the same knowledge as if i had read it, but i actually think it would be perhaps a bit better to just have the experience of reading the book, that way you can forget some of the books you have read years ago and reexperience the good ones. still... i would run down the halls of a library with my hands running across the spines of every book at least once or twice.
I've thought about absorbing all knowledge, but it seems a bit too implausible. I feel like if I allowed myself that, my mind would function more like an encyclopedia than memory. I suppose you could recall the information when prompted (ex. a test), but your daily life would overall be the same. Instead of stumbling onto a previous memory, I'd feel like you'd have to search up a keyword in your brain to think of something and rather than abstractly thinking of an idea, you'd be basically reciting the words.
I, too, would run down libraries, but only in the sections that I'm interested in. I have no desire to clutter my brain about subjects I do not care for.
I'm imagining the skill downloads from Matrix.
"Do you know how to fly that thing?"
"I do now."
Alas I would only have book knowledge on a particular subject and not actual experience. I guess I'm only cut out to be a super-researcher.
We'd have to make your superhero name "The Know-It-All."
Any language barriers, or would you automatically understand the text regardless of the language it was written in?
Wouldn't matter either way, I could just absorb language textbooks.
That depends on whether or not you could get your hands on a text book for translating Sumerian-to-English. ;)
Thats what I though when I read it too!