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Comment on Ask HN: How do you synthesize books that you read?parent

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This is my answer. How do you know you've learned something? If you're learning how to build something, you know you've learned it when you can build it.

Fiction is a little tougher, but I've found conversations with my wife help me here. If I can make her as interested in the story as I am, then I must be retaining enough of the important points to say I'm absorbing enough of what I'm reading.

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