What random, mostly useless, thing are you surprisingly good at? (Jessica's is remembering the names of people's children. Mine is guessing when things were made.)
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I didn’t have any special comprehension abilities other than the ones you’d expect from an extremely bookish middle schooler, and the nature of the random access wouldn’t let me e.g. query by themes or motifs, sequencing events, etc.
So the problem is that you get page images rather than ideas, and that in turn means you have sequential rather than random access?
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Suffice it to say I had no advantage on a question like “What was Mary feeling when X told her Y?” and an absolutely overwhelming advantage on “Justify your answer with evidence from the text.”
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Have you ever considered writing a carefully organized book of valuable ideas, so that you and other people like you could benefit from having a mental image of it?
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That reminds me of song lyrics. If I want to remember the name of a song (one that's used in its lyrics), then I'll usually have to go through it sequentially from the beginning until I reach the point where the name of the song is used. I can speed it up a little, but that's it.
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I think in the case of lyrics that that's a common phenomenon, but I could be mistaken.
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