Currently I am registering all my books into a special program for collections (from the same producer that made the program I used for my DvD’s and BluRays. A lot of work, I can assure you. but then again also very nice to do. Many of those books I have more than 20 years in my possession (they were bought between 1975 an 1985). Most are science fiction and fantasy books.
Something start to surprise me more and more: Books that I have read for the last time at least 20 years ago are still stored in my memory. The cover, some pictures or some words… and the memories about the book come back. I can remember the stories again. And how much more the story impressed me when I read the story long ago, the clearer the memories are. And mind you, most of these back haven’t been in my mind for many years…
Funny, stored safely away for such a long time and just a small trigger to bring them back to me… I read somewhere that our memory registers every sight we see down to the structures in stones we see and saves it all in our memory. Imagine if could freely access all this stored information….
Amazing, just amazing… and there we are with our highly advanced memory chips and such. Such a beginners we are with our megabytes and gigabytes…
(Credit picture: Expeditie Duurzaam)