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In my experience people who can read a book in a day or two don't remember shit. Plot points, character details, colors, jokes, they're all lost to them. They vaguely remember the jist of the story.
Why even read
'Cause it's fun.
I read to enjoy in the moment, not to memorize. How do you enjoy books?
I enjoy the moment and don’t need to memorize it like a school book to remember the plot of what I’ve read
whilst I agree that people should be able to point to at least 3 things they take away from a piece of media in order to not simply mindlessly consume it, I do respect that plot isn't always the highlight
Maybe people think I mean a flawless recollection of every event in the entire narrative but I’m willing to be pretty flexible here as to what constitutes a reasonable memory of the plot of a media
Like surely people are just not recognizing they do in fact remember the basics of what happened, even if they need something to prompt their memory
There is also something to the idea that people just read to escape their terrible reality, and it literally does not matter what it is. I once read the whole Twilight saga and I to this day cannot tell you more than 3 facts about it:
I remember the good old days of reading the ingredients list of shampoo bottles while taking a shit.
Well in all fairness that’s basically an accurate recollection of most of the plot
Do you remember every episode of every TV programme you've seen?
No but the general plot is usually pretty hard to forget.