What are some of your hacks to retain more information from a book you're reading?

I've started underlining important sentences and plan on skimming the book after I finish it to reread those.

Haha, good one - my partner already asks me to put the book down and hug her when reading in bed 🤣

synthesize it to my partner. 

They inevitably stump me w/ a good question and then that sticks w/ me when I return to reading the info.

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I'm so lazy when it comes to writing. Need to form that habit more

write stuff down in your own words, ideally on physical material. helps retention a ton.

Also spaced repetition

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Oh, that's an interesting approach! Does it work in terms of remembering the contents better?

Sometimes audiobooks simultaneously. Even do it for articles too. Feels like a read-along

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That's a good approach too, though it's more short-term. Underlining has the benefit that you can come back to it months or even years later and refresh the info really fast.

I’m going to copy this - great idea

For me currently, I spend about 5 min thinking through how I could have applied a lesson/approach to something else I already did that day. Or consciously think through how I am apply it to the rest of my day. Helps me implant the info

So you just sort of memorize everything? What if you read many books?

I read like a cup of water. 

Filling myself up 3/4 way or until I feel like I can’t take anymore in. Then I put the book away until the next time I need a drink of water.

Write a few sentence summary every time you pick it up. When done, re summarize that