Why it is best not to attempt to remember what you read

Why do we read? First, because reading is enjoyable, because reading is part essence of how we build up our minds; for those who believe that man has spirit, how we build up our minds and spirits.

When we read a beautiful poem, or beautifully constructed prose, something in our minds and/or spirits finds delight and beauty in what we read, yet the exact details of what we read largely are inconsequential. Rather, it is effect of what we read on our minds and/or spirits that is foundation of the response to a beautiful poem, or beautifully constructed prose.

Poems and/or prose provide a window into our minds and/or spirit.

We read, in part, because reading is a window into our souls, a window into our minds and/or spirit.

The other interrelated reasons why we read? It is in context of reading that we have, what perhaps are the best opportunities, for (i) mulling over credibility or reasonableness of what we already know; (ii) deducing what we ought to know that as yet we do not know; and (iii) inferring the relation between what we now read, and what we already know.