"They say human brains have the storage capacity to hold everything on the internet, the equivalent of 4.7 billion books."
So, you don't have to worry! Unless you achieve immortality, no matter how many fun facts you learn, or books you read, your brain will never run out of disk space.
When the factoid you want isn't in the "main library" of one's Brain House, but rather in the storm-cellar in the Unused Garage at the end of The Wing We Don't Talk About that can only be reached thru the Childhood Trauma Gate of Fun, it'll be next month before you can get it out of your mouth.
At 2AM, to your cat - after which you will promptly reassign it to long-long-long-term storage again.
@kimlockhartga@bookstodon I am not sure people read books in order to memorize each word. If I get one short insight from a book, I consider it time well spent.
For example, a great book like "The Checklist Manifesto" has two insights: "Keeping a checklist is more important than you think it is" and "Making and keeping checklists is a non-trivial skill".
These fit in a friggin' toot.
I'm not worried about running out of space, I'm worried about running out of time.
@oldredsubby@bookstodon@passenger@kimlockhartga that is so very true! For example, I first read Wuthering Heights when I was a teenager and didn't really like it much. Later, I happened to read it again in my early 30s and I was blown away by how much I loved it. The characterisation, the atmosphere.. I really didn't have words to express how that book made me feel. All I could think was that it was a masterpiece.
@passenger@kimlockhartga@bookstodon haha, in fact I am secretly glad when I forget my favourite books just enough so that I almost enjoy reading it as much as reading it for the first time with the added benefit of vaguely remembering the best parts and looking forward to them!
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I felt another piece of information slip out of my storage while learning this.
Maybe the capacity is there, but the algorithm might have reserved large parts of that as spare; for important data which must not be lost in case of partial failure. Unless I can override this to access all my storage at once, my brain is quite useless in that 4.7 billion books regard. 😅
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