Some of us aren't "really brilliant people". Some of us are trying to make the most of an average intelligence. While reading 500 pages of fiction or non-ficti

Some of us aren't "really brilliant people". Some of us are trying to make the most of an average intelligence. While reading 500 pages of fiction or non-fiction, we're introduced to dozens of people, places, events and ideas that we'd like to know more about, but don't want to interrupt the flow of the book to pursue at that moment. Some of these people, places, events and ideas are new to us. Some are familiar but from a different perspective. Sometimes there's a different context or frame that provides new insights into what we thought we already understood. Those of us with average intelligence sometimes find it difficult to remember what we thought was important when we were on page 206 of 500. Even though we're not extraordinarily brilliant, we also want to synthesize different ideas and make connections among various sources for better understanding, and for inspiration into what to read and research next.