Jack: Thank you for a nice list of book use tips, using the "constructive criticism" approach you outlined in the recent thread on this topic. We could use more of that.

Very early in this thread (fourth post?) I hinted that some kind souls might refresh or link the threads of memorization tips for those who wanted to get away from the books. In these hundreds of posts, no soul (abashedly including myself) has been so kind. Let me rectify that now, even though this post will be so deeply embedded in the morass of comments that it will be largely overlooked by those who might benefit:

Thread 32781: Tips for Memorizing Songs
Thread 8098: How do you learn/memorize songs?

Any other useful threads? (Please post additional tips to the relevant threads, not to this one, thanks.)