Help please: how to memorize a book word for word reading only once

[Josh (Josh Cohen)]

I don’t think it’s possible to memorize verbatim-text by just reading the text once, but here are some related discussions on the topic:

• How Do I Memorize a Book?
• Derren Brown - Library; possible?
• Photographic memory and photoreading
• Photoreading Mental photography

Here are some threads about memorizing text word for word:

• Divina Commedia
• Divina Commedia, and image density
• John Basinger: Memorizing Milton's Paradise Lost - #23 by alexxx (see the top post and also post #23 for an update on Dante)

If you’re interested in memorizing general content with page numbers, these are interesting:

• Yanjaa Memorizing the IKEA Catalog
• Dr. Yip Swee Chooi memorizing a dictionary
• DR. YIP SWEE CHOOI memorized a dictionary with ~1300 pages in half a year. Are there any tutorials on how he did that?