Tony Buzan's book suggest rather than learning line for line you
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read and reread quickly... and with understanding over a period of four days, approximately five to ten times per day. If you read for understanding continually in this way, you will become far more familiar with the material than you realise at the end of the twentieth reading, and you will be able to recall, without looking at the text, most of the material to be remembered.

He further suggest you use your imagination to understand (that is use your imagination while reading). Use key words to help you fill in the gaps, chain them in their order to help you to remember.

I don't know how familiar you are with peg systems for memory so I don't know if you can put all of the above information to use. Let us know and we can explain it further.

Alex