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I found it odd he turned books upside down to remember he read them.

• citruspi 7y ago
  > I found it odd he turned books upside down to remember he read them. Unless you have another source, I think you've misread the article. From the article: > ...Kim was able to memorize things from the age of 16–20 months. He read books, memorized them, and then placed them upside down on the shelf to show that he had finished reading them, a practice he maintained all his life. It sounds like he turned them upside down from an early age to signal that he'd read the book (perhaps to his parents?), not to remember that he'd read it. And then, for some reason, he maintained the practice for the rest of his life. But either way, the article doesn't say he turned books upside down to remember he'd read them.
  • delinka 7y ago
    I think it's just stylistic phrasing. "I place a piece of paper between books on the shelf to remember that I've read all the ones on the right." Yeah, technically, I'm not 'remembering' in this case, I'm 'reminding' myself.
• kace91 7y ago
  Well, if you open a book you're currently reading you can pretty easily tell which parts you've already read and which you haven't - but you still probably use some sort of bookmark to avoid going through the hassle. This sounds similar, a matter of convenience rather than a need. Glance at a bookshelf and you can know visually what's still unread without checking the books one by one.