Well, strictly speaking, he didn't recall the content of the footnote, did he? How could he, not having read it? And are you saying that he remembered the page numbers of all the footnotes that appeared in the book? (Or did he just tell you he doesn't read footnotes?)

An interesting memory if so, and certainly fairly visual in nature. I am similar, and often remember the page layout of many pages, even just the paragraph breaks if there's not much of visual interest. I have detected the same sort of thing in our five-year-old son. I would guess that these sort of memory attributes point to a weak form of eidetic memory-- like photographic memory but through an imperfect lens.

Striving to increase my rate of flow, and fight forum gloopiness. sick