Why We Forget Most of the Books We Read – The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/01/what-was-this-article-about-again/551603/

Books, shows, movies, and songs aren’t files we upload to our brains—they’re part of the tapestry of life, woven in with everything else. From a distance, it may become harder to see a single thread clearly, but it’s still in there.