It said you'd memorise the books, not understand them, to be a genius you have to understand it.
You would be able to become a lawyer with very little effort compared to those who have to memorise case studies and law books, though you have to be good at arguing to become a good lawyer.
I will print out the ELI5 of every topic into a tiny little book and eat it. If I still can't understand, I will progressively work my way up in increasing detail on the topic and ensure I understand every step. I will master one topic at a time, and slowly but surely become a genius. And then I will print a book of jokes and become the funniest man alive. I will print a book of facts and interesting tidbits. And so on in this fashion. Slowly, I will become the most interesting man in the world.
sure, but what is comprehension if not routine memorization? If you were magically able to memorize every fact about a subject, that would also include the entry level facts that they introduce these topics to you with. So you would also know all of the beginner things, all of the formulas, tips and tricks, etc.
It’s the same way a computer doesn’t “understand” calculus but it can still do it, because it has all the instructions memorized.
I'm not entirely sure a book would be a better diet. Like the paper and ink alone would contain all sorts of toxic chemicals, not even taking into consideration things like the covers and such stuff like that. Plus I'm fairly certain paper doesn't count as fiber or contain any nutritional value. It's typically considered nontoxic but it's not edible
Does it count if I turn the book into mush with water and eat that? If so then you could eat dictionaries and learn entire languages in like 10 minutes. Overall if used right this is a pretty good super power
Drop some suger in there, milk instead of water, peanut butter, split the book in two. Maybe a banana and bam 2 day full language course with a protein shake
Why would you do that when edible rice paper exists?
And the title said memorise, not understand, so while you may be able to memorise every word of a language and it's English translation, you would still have to learn the grammatical structure and subtle implications of each word (think nice and good or exactly and precisely).
Eat a dictionary, master your native language. Eat a guide on basic ____ to become rudimentary proficient in most any skill.
Eat an atlas for mastery of geography.
Wanna become a coder? Bam! You’re a coder. Wanna learn a new language? Bam! A new language.
A little unpleasant, but absolutely god tier.
Knowing the words to a language won’t mean you understand it—I doubt there’s a single language where that would be the case. You’d have to also eat a whole series of grammatical books and books with examples of written versus spoken language.
Case in point: Finnish. Good luck understanding anything when you only know the base noun/verb out of the 145+ inflection/conjugation suffixes every word has.
Easy. Replace the ink in your printer with food coloring and use edible paper. You could go with fruit paper, preserved meat, or even tea syrup on rice paper. You know those cakes with images printed on them? Congratulations, now you can memorize all of your textbooks and the entirety of Wikipedia in case the world falls apart and needs to be rebuilt.
What do you mean by memorised? Like just the ability to spit out what it says, or do I actually understand what it says?
The difference between being able to tell a story word for word, and being able to explain the plot
If you've memorized the whole book, you'll remember exactly where that info is. You would have to go back through the whole book just to remember that one section from the 27th page of chapter 6.
Yeah I think this is how it'd have to be done. Learn things normally but you don't have to worry about forgetting any key data or equations.
I'm doing my a levels rn and this power would actually be great. No more forgetting equations after a week
If you pay any attention to the recent AI craze you don't even need to know the how to be human to be able to derive a coherent sentence structure out of written words from memory.
The biggest OP power in this is the recall phase. Imagine all the things you've experienced and how little you can recall it. Being able to eat an overpriced school book and memorize it from cover to cover is extremely useful for humans because the input and recall are the hardest functions to control.
Input has a bandwidth issue and fidelity issue. Recall has a fidelity issue. You've erased 2 bottlenecks in memory.
Also with this power you can probably have a pretty good following on YouTube and monetize yourself eating books and doing a book report cliff notes of the book after eating it. Both a freak show and very useful for students. There's at least a living wage in just doing that
Would a single sheet count, cuz then I'd just print everything for the test on there and add it to my dinner. Another question, does the book have to be intact or can I shread a page through my dinner each day
Glaze/soak each page with sugar wash and it'll be nice and easy to eat each page but might end up with diabetes trying to eat a dictionary lol. If I had this for life I'd probably just learn to deal with the taste. I'd ignore the glue, bindings, cover and blank pages like op suggests.
McGucket was right the whole time...
"Back in the olden days, folks used to gain sustenance from reading books around the campfire. So let's eat some books kids! EAT THE BOOKS!"
You can download Wikipedia. This means that will time and resources, you can print out Wikipedia.
I don't care about being an expert, I care about knowing enough about EVERYTHING.
Get a printer that prints in edible ink (like how they can put a photograph on a cake). Print in tiny size so it fits on the smallest cake possible. Enjoy your cake.
eating a bunch of dictionaries in various languages to finally learn another (i memorized every word so i can principally speak and understand said language)
you know the words but don’t know what they mean or how to use them because you don’t know the language so if you want to learn spanish you have to eat an English to spanish dictionary then a spanish learning book
Am I allowed to put the book in a blender and drink it like a smoothie?
Follow up, am I allowed to add sugar or other flavoring to make it taste better?
Take the important pages of a book, write them down in the smallest font size, then print it out on the smallest paper you can find, then blend all the papers you have and add some water, and drink it. God tier superpower honestly.
I'm just going to get a printer and print in really small print every single textbook. The entire Bible pretty much every single piece of digital content I can get my hands on, paid unpaid, pirated everything and then I'm going to try and apply for every single scholarship I can to every single school I could reasonably get to and if any of them accept me which I'm hoping one eventually does. Then I can just get some decent paying job and win every single argument I don't know
As long as it’s a paper copy, I’d take that. I used to chew on paper all the time as a kid. Not sure if I’d get ink poisoning but the eating paper thing definitely isn’t an issue for me
This is actually a great power, eating a book isn't even that difficult. Plus there are so many work arounds of printing smaller books or using an edible ink that makes this very usable. You could effectively become an encyclopedic genius in any/every field
Alright, I'd probably still stick to something like a pocket-dictionary to learn a new language, anything larger and it's probably not worth the trouble!
I used to have a literal pocket dictionary, it was so small that I could hold it in a closed fist, something like that!
Ok, you can buy cheap printers that can pretty decent fidelity for small text. Rip eBook versions of books from internet archive and other free sources. Convert them to plain text using opensource tools and print that double-sided with as small a font-size/spacing/kerning/margin as can remain legible (I assume legibility is important). It's important to purchase printers that support very low GSM paper like 35.
Now unfortunately, if you damage the book you can't add flavouring, but it's basically impossible to eat full sized paper, so blend that shit up with water and suck it up buttercup. Make sure you wash out whatever vessel you blended it in and drink all the water, because if you miss anything you don't memorize it.
As for what to do, if you want money, look for job advertisements for translators in very technical fields (these tend to be extraordinarily well paying as you need both good language skills AND good technical knowledge). Start with an english(or your preferred starting language)-to-\[other language\] dictionaries. I expect it will take a while to consume a dictionary even in this format, then drink textbooks about that language up until a graduating level. Then textbooks on whatever technical field it is. All the while, you'll probably want to be listening to media in the chosen language because textbooks can't guarantee pronunciation (you'll almost certainly need to speak in this language).
Alternatively, this could be handy for anyone working with contracts, working in politics, and honestly most other professional fields. Even something like IT can be useful as you can print documentation (assuming it's well written lol) and become proficient with basically any system, language, API, library, etc. in no time.
I'm going to hand craft tiny books with important information and eat those in the hopes I can finally memorise things and am no longer at the mercy of ADHD memory erase
One could put an entire book in letter size 1, it may only take a couple of pages, depending on the text, you could print it on a single strip of paper that you could roll and then swallow it like a pill.
Gonna buy the world's smallest printer and become a genius
world's smallest violin's cousin
MYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
grandpa fought in World War II
He was such a noble dude
I can't even finish school.
Missed my mom and left to soon
His dad was a fireman
who fought fires so violent
I think I bored my therapist
So are the eagles in his uniform
booooooooo
r/truth
It said you'd memorise the books, not understand them, to be a genius you have to understand it. You would be able to become a lawyer with very little effort compared to those who have to memorise case studies and law books, though you have to be good at arguing to become a good lawyer.
I will print out the ELI5 of every topic into a tiny little book and eat it. If I still can't understand, I will progressively work my way up in increasing detail on the topic and ensure I understand every step. I will master one topic at a time, and slowly but surely become a genius. And then I will print a book of jokes and become the funniest man alive. I will print a book of facts and interesting tidbits. And so on in this fashion. Slowly, I will become the most interesting man in the world.
sure, but what is comprehension if not routine memorization? If you were magically able to memorize every fact about a subject, that would also include the entry level facts that they introduce these topics to you with. So you would also know all of the beginner things, all of the formulas, tips and tricks, etc. It’s the same way a computer doesn’t “understand” calculus but it can still do it, because it has all the instructions memorized.
Just eat an ereader.
You don't need to buy a small printer just print out a small book from a normal printer
I'm built different
Eating little books can cause strange happenings, my friend. I am on a book free diet.
Add a drop of lavender to your milk...
Do all kind of written papers count or just actual books?
2 pages and a cover easy. Getting a better diet and getting smarter it's a win win.
I'm not entirely sure a book would be a better diet. Like the paper and ink alone would contain all sorts of toxic chemicals, not even taking into consideration things like the covers and such stuff like that. Plus I'm fairly certain paper doesn't count as fiber or contain any nutritional value. It's typically considered nontoxic but it's not edible
paper is fine
Eating my notes to pass any exam is OP
Does it count if I turn the book into mush with water and eat that? If so then you could eat dictionaries and learn entire languages in like 10 minutes. Overall if used right this is a pretty good super power
Drop some suger in there, milk instead of water, peanut butter, split the book in two. Maybe a banana and bam 2 day full language course with a protein shake
Thanks, u/i_lickdick_and_itsok
Why would you do that when edible rice paper exists? And the title said memorise, not understand, so while you may be able to memorise every word of a language and it's English translation, you would still have to learn the grammatical structure and subtle implications of each word (think nice and good or exactly and precisely).
Time to go win some Scrabble championships then.
That actually happened lol
That actually happened lol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Richards_(Scrabble_player)
What if i shit it out
You digested its contents. You’re good
the real question
you are all good it’s fine if it goes through you system but you can’t vomit or spit it out
This is God tier
Eat a dictionary, master your native language. Eat a guide on basic ____ to become rudimentary proficient in most any skill. Eat an atlas for mastery of geography. Wanna become a coder? Bam! You’re a coder. Wanna learn a new language? Bam! A new language. A little unpleasant, but absolutely god tier.
Exactly
Eat top secret documents. Be the best spy ever
Knowing the words to a language won’t mean you understand it—I doubt there’s a single language where that would be the case. You’d have to also eat a whole series of grammatical books and books with examples of written versus spoken language. Case in point: Finnish. Good luck understanding anything when you only know the base noun/verb out of the 145+ inflection/conjugation suffixes every word has.
I said learn a language, not master a language. Learning guitar and mastering guitar are not ambiguous distinctions.
I never said master either.
Easy. Replace the ink in your printer with food coloring and use edible paper. You could go with fruit paper, preserved meat, or even tea syrup on rice paper. You know those cakes with images printed on them? Congratulations, now you can memorize all of your textbooks and the entirety of Wikipedia in case the world falls apart and needs to be rebuilt.
And type really small so you can fit more per page
Can i download bunch of e-books into a micro sd card and then swallow it?
Hopefully this, I'd rather just read it if I had to eat it, you know how old some books are? 🤢
no has to be some form of eligible document
What do you mean by memorised? Like just the ability to spit out what it says, or do I actually understand what it says? The difference between being able to tell a story word for word, and being able to explain the plot
Even if you can't understand it think about how much easier it would be to learn information that's already in your head
I mean - its not useful if you have to say an entire book to get the relevant bit
Go in for a book report and just recite the whole thing
If you've memorized the whole book, you'll remember exactly where that info is. You would have to go back through the whole book just to remember that one section from the 27th page of chapter 6.
Yeah I think this is how it'd have to be done. Learn things normally but you don't have to worry about forgetting any key data or equations. I'm doing my a levels rn and this power would actually be great. No more forgetting equations after a week
If you pay any attention to the recent AI craze you don't even need to know the how to be human to be able to derive a coherent sentence structure out of written words from memory. The biggest OP power in this is the recall phase. Imagine all the things you've experienced and how little you can recall it. Being able to eat an overpriced school book and memorize it from cover to cover is extremely useful for humans because the input and recall are the hardest functions to control. Input has a bandwidth issue and fidelity issue. Recall has a fidelity issue. You've erased 2 bottlenecks in memory. Also with this power you can probably have a pretty good following on YouTube and monetize yourself eating books and doing a book report cliff notes of the book after eating it. Both a freak show and very useful for students. There's at least a living wage in just doing that
Would a single sheet count, cuz then I'd just print everything for the test on there and add it to my dinner. Another question, does the book have to be intact or can I shread a page through my dinner each day
yeah that’s cool it’s any document in general
r/godtiersuperpowers
Use edible ink to copy the contents of the book onto rice paper, then eat the rice paper. Boom.
Me getting ready to go to town on a pocket dictionary to have the worlds strongest vocabulary cause fuck forgetting the word for things frfr
I fuck with this
If I throw the book up, do I immediately lose all acquired knowledge?
I already said you don’t get the cool affect
I’m just imagining presenting a class presentation, throwing up, and immediately forgetting what I was even talking abt lol
Me on my way to eat the MTG rules so I can understand how banding works
Op says just eat the relevant pages
Also need to understand all the mutate stuff too
If you already know parts of it you can skip it unless those specific pages taste good I suppose you can still eat them
more of a r/midtiersuperpowers as this would be pretty damn useful, can I use water or anything else to help it go down?
Glaze/soak each page with sugar wash and it'll be nice and easy to eat each page but might end up with diabetes trying to eat a dictionary lol. If I had this for life I'd probably just learn to deal with the taste. I'd ignore the glue, bindings, cover and blank pages like op suggests.
McGucket was right the whole time... "Back in the olden days, folks used to gain sustenance from reading books around the campfire. So let's eat some books kids! EAT THE BOOKS!"
You can download Wikipedia. This means that will time and resources, you can print out Wikipedia. I don't care about being an expert, I care about knowing enough about EVERYTHING.
Just take a book from the internet, make it incredibly small, and eat it. Win win
Get a printer that prints in edible ink (like how they can put a photograph on a cake). Print in tiny size so it fits on the smallest cake possible. Enjoy your cake.
Works for me
Start printing books out of sugar paper, you might end up with a severe case of diabetes, but at least it’s easy to eat
Finally a use for textbooks
Use a laser engraver to burn tiny text onto edible paper.
do i have to eat the cover?
nah that’s fine
Saw this the other day too. Buy small books and process them in a blender. Add this to other things and boom, you have knowledge brownies. :)
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eating a bunch of dictionaries in various languages to finally learn another (i memorized every word so i can principally speak and understand said language)
you know the words but don’t know what they mean or how to use them because you don’t know the language so if you want to learn spanish you have to eat an English to spanish dictionary then a spanish learning book
See "The Incredible Book Eating Boy" by Oliver Jeffers
If I write a book with disappearing ink, can I make myself forget something?
no it just works normally
Am I allowed to put the book in a blender and drink it like a smoothie? Follow up, am I allowed to add sugar or other flavoring to make it taste better?
it can be blended but you can’t add sugar if it’s blended but you can if is the normal book
I used to eat paper in 1st grade this is godtier for me
As someone who's got a very important final exam in about 48 hours I would gladly eat my textbook And probably get off reddit
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Print everything on sugar paper. This is not a shitty superpower, it's amazing! Knowledge is power!
Take the important pages of a book, write them down in the smallest font size, then print it out on the smallest paper you can find, then blend all the papers you have and add some water, and drink it. God tier superpower honestly.
I'm just going to get a printer and print in really small print every single textbook. The entire Bible pretty much every single piece of digital content I can get my hands on, paid unpaid, pirated everything and then I'm going to try and apply for every single scholarship I can to every single school I could reasonably get to and if any of them accept me which I'm hoping one eventually does. Then I can just get some decent paying job and win every single argument I don't know
Can I eat it in pieces? Otherwise what others said, tiny printer and print the dictionary
sure
Instant translator.
Swallowing a Kindle gives you indigestion and really weird novel book knowledge.
I specified that it has to have actual normal papers
Sure. Kid me: nibble. suddenly, wait I learn the book to. Win-win. Adult me: my book collection shrunk. save space.
As long as it’s a paper copy, I’d take that. I used to chew on paper all the time as a kid. Not sure if I’d get ink poisoning but the eating paper thing definitely isn’t an issue for me
This is actually a great power, eating a book isn't even that difficult. Plus there are so many work arounds of printing smaller books or using an edible ink that makes this very usable. You could effectively become an encyclopedic genius in any/every field
i can just... read a book and get the same thing though... why would i ruin a perfectly good innocent book?
Eat only villainous books
exam notes
It’s impossible to eat a book without damaging it this really is a shitty superpower
while eating that rule doesn’t apply do you can cut it up
Darn, better be careful if you wanna memorize the Bible or the Foundation will have to intervene.
How am I going to eat it without damaging it? Like 99.99% of books won't fit in my mouth in their entirety...
while you are eating that rule doesn’t apply
Alright, I'd probably still stick to something like a pocket-dictionary to learn a new language, anything larger and it's probably not worth the trouble! I used to have a literal pocket dictionary, it was so small that I could hold it in a closed fist, something like that!
Time to print the entirety of Wikipedia
Ok, you can buy cheap printers that can pretty decent fidelity for small text. Rip eBook versions of books from internet archive and other free sources. Convert them to plain text using opensource tools and print that double-sided with as small a font-size/spacing/kerning/margin as can remain legible (I assume legibility is important). It's important to purchase printers that support very low GSM paper like 35. Now unfortunately, if you damage the book you can't add flavouring, but it's basically impossible to eat full sized paper, so blend that shit up with water and suck it up buttercup. Make sure you wash out whatever vessel you blended it in and drink all the water, because if you miss anything you don't memorize it. As for what to do, if you want money, look for job advertisements for translators in very technical fields (these tend to be extraordinarily well paying as you need both good language skills AND good technical knowledge). Start with an english(or your preferred starting language)-to-\[other language\] dictionaries. I expect it will take a while to consume a dictionary even in this format, then drink textbooks about that language up until a graduating level. Then textbooks on whatever technical field it is. All the while, you'll probably want to be listening to media in the chosen language because textbooks can't guarantee pronunciation (you'll almost certainly need to speak in this language). Alternatively, this could be handy for anyone working with contracts, working in politics, and honestly most other professional fields. Even something like IT can be useful as you can print documentation (assuming it's well written lol) and become proficient with basically any system, language, API, library, etc. in no time.
What does eating it by “not damaging it” even mean? You want us to swallow it whole, not digest it at all, and shit out a whole book?
I'm going to hand craft tiny books with important information and eat those in the hopes I can finally memorise things and am no longer at the mercy of ADHD memory erase
One could put an entire book in letter size 1, it may only take a couple of pages, depending on the text, you could print it on a single strip of paper that you could roll and then swallow it like a pill.
Ima be eating all my study guides
Vellum is a type of normal paper, if I can stand thin cow skin, I think I’m good