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 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.