# Best method to memorize a textbook? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Memory Chat\ **Tags:** book-memorization\ **Created:** [February 1, 2012, 1:13am UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/best-method-to-memorize-a-textbook/27370 "2012-02-01T01:13:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 11
**Author:** ![JeffreyLucas](https://forum.artofmemory.com/user_avatar/forum.artofmemory.com/jeffreylucas/32/2784_2.png) [@JeffreyLucas](https://forum.artofmemory.com/u/JeffreyLucas)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 12:46pm UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/best-method-to-memorize-a-textbook/27370/11 "2012-12-06T12:46:31Z")
My technique: read the book first with the active reading technique. Than you make qoustions out the notition. Then you answer the quostions every day, and the things you cant remember that are the things you memorize with the mnemonics technique (loci/link/story/etc.). I like to make donkey bridges and make image from that. The image i place on a door of on a window with the loci technique. And if i can answer all the quostions, i read the book again with the active reading technique, to see if i miss someting. After this you go see documentrys, you go bring the knowledge in practise, and do someting with the new knowledge like expanding. A another way is that what Dominic o’brien said in one of his books: make a mindmap en memorize the keyword with the loci technique. Active notetaking: ebook → learn more, study less > **[Active notetaking](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/active-notetaking/37625)** > > \[This thread was copied here from the old forum.\] JeffreyLucas 28 October, 2012 - 08:52 Hi, From Scotth Young i read the ebook: “learn more, study less”. He talks about active notetaking, and this really works. He made me conscious about the... --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/best-method-to-memorize-a-textbook/27370)._