Foer's book pairs a solid survey of techniques to master memory with a great story about his own disciplined walk through the world of competitive recall. I th

Foer's book pairs a solid survey of techniques to master memory with a great story about his own disciplined walk through the world of competitive recall. I think you will like it. And yeah, within a free-ranging story well told, there are introductions to multiple techniques (some of them rooted in the ancient, like the “Method of Loci", and some of them interesting contemporary 'cheats') that you might want to try applying to your retention of dense texts. I totally recognize & share the difficulty you describe. Recommended...give it a shot.