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How to Read a Book r6

Oct 11, 20247 min read

How to Read a Book r6

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I love knowledge more than books, and this seems like a great source to base a really strong methodology to reading off of.

Highlights

  • The purpose of reading things like this is to gain, and retain, information.—Updated on 2024-02-25 08:18:25—Group:Public
    • Annotation: This list doesn’t include two of my biggest goals, composition and communication. I feel that when reading, I can’t just be trying to understand and remember, but more important is to understand and incorporate the insights into my network.
  • Never rely on the author’s structures alone. Move around inthe text, following your own goals.—Updated on 2024-02-25 11:46:03—Group:Public
  • First time for overview and discovery. Second time fordetail and understanding. Third time for note-taking in yourown words.—Updated on 2024-02-25 11:48:14—Group:Public ^e72645
    • Annotation: What about an alternative approach:
  1. Overview & discovery
  2. Detail & Understanding
  3. (not reading) Note taking on everything I can remember
  4. Review the text a final time and take notes on important bits I did not remember.
  • Mark up your reading with your own notes. This helps youlearn and also helps you find important passages later.—Updated on 2024-02-25 11:49:47—Group:Public
    • Annotation: I’d imagine this to be especially true when there are multiple readings of a text, as suggested here. Read through quickly, marking areas of interest and confusion that you didn’t understand very well, mark areas you understood completely and can skip, etc.
  • Setting time limits and keeping to them (whileaccomplishing your goals) is one of the most important life skills you can learn. So neverstart to read without planning when to stop.—Updated on 2024-02-25 11:52:51—Group:Public
  • Before you begin, figure out why you are reading this particular book, and how you aregoing to read it.—Updated on 2024-02-25 12:00:24—Group:Public ^d43f90
    • Annotation: I think I should have a pattern for this, as it is easy to simply say “I’m reading it to learn,” which does not give any helpful insight into the reading. Maybe, for each of the 3 readings mentioned above, I can declare a purpose for reading.

I could approach a book with a vague over-arching notion while approaching the superficial read with a specific methodology, where my purpose in reading is to find the purpose to read it another time.

  • though not always—Updated on 2024-02-25 12:17:08—Group:Public ^bcae9c
    • Annotation: In this case, should we search for more information online? I also have concerns about halo and framing effects learning about the author would have on the work.

I imagine a superficial reading should be blind, but before engaging with the material at a deeper level, research on the author and motivations should be conducted by the reader.

  • Conventional wisdom holds that x, but I argue instead that y.—Updated on 2024-02-25 12:18:51—Group:Public
    • Annotation: This might be relevant to They Say / I Say
  • Generate questions to answer on your second reading—Updated on 2024-02-25 12:22:42—Group:Public
    • Annotation: This seems to me the key part of this step. A good goal is everything. Approaching the text with prior concerns can be difficult if I don’t know what the text is about! Without a skimming of the text beforehand, the only information available to ask questions is from the prior sections of the book, table of contents, and headers/titles.
  • A very good system—Updated on 2024-02-25 12:28:59—Group:Public
    • Annotation: I enthusiastically recommend anybody who is serious about reading for insights (and writing themselves) to learn about “Knowledge Bases” or “Zettelkasten” or “Personal Knowledge Management.”

My notes are not bridges to the understanding present in the book, like I gather is their role here. Instead, they are the building blocks of a greater corpus of wisdom sourced from all the books, articles, papers, and experiences I “read.” This system becomes a “Second Brain” that I use to enhance my own thinking, whether that be creatively, factually, or even in preparation to read new material.

to-process

  • The purpose of reading things like this is to gain, and retain, information. — Updated on 2024-02-25 08:18:25

    • This list doesn’t include two of my biggest goals, composition and communication. I feel that when reading, I can’t just be trying to understand and remember, but more important is to understand and incorporate the insights into my network.

  • Never rely on the author’s structures alone. Move around inthe text, following your own goals. — Updated on 2024-02-25 11:46:03

  • First time for overview and discovery. Second time fordetail and understanding. Third time for note-taking in yourown words. — Updated on 2024-02-25 11:48:14

    • What about an alternative approach:
  1. Overview & discovery
  2. Detail & Understanding
  3. (not reading) Note taking on everything I can remember
  4. Review the text a final time and take notes on important bits I did not remember.

  • Mark up your reading with your own notes. This helps youlearn and also helps you find important passages later. — Updated on 2024-02-25 11:49:47

    • I’d imagine this to be especially true when there are multiple readings of a text, as suggested here. Read through quickly, marking areas of interest and confusion that you didn’t understand very well, mark areas you understood completely and can skip, etc.

  • Setting time limits and keeping to them (whileaccomplishing your goals) is one of the most important life skills you can learn. So neverstart to read without planning when to stop. — Updated on 2024-02-25 11:52:51

  • Before you begin, figure out why you are reading this particular book, and how you aregoing to read it. — Updated on 2024-02-25 12:00:24

    • I think I should have a pattern for this, as it is easy to simply say “I’m reading it to learn,” which does not give any helpful insight into the reading. Maybe, for each of the 3 readings mentioned above, I can declare a purpose for reading.

I could approach a book with a vague over-arching notion while approaching the superficial read with a specific methodology, where my purpose in reading is to find the purpose to read it another time.

  • though not always — Updated on 2024-02-25 12:17:08
    • In this case, should we search for more information online? I also have concerns about halo and framing effects learning about the author would have on the work.

I imagine a superficial reading should be blind, but before engaging with the material at a deeper level, research on the author and motivations should be conducted by the reader.

  • Conventional wisdom holds that x, but I argue instead that y. — Updated on 2024-02-25 12:18:51
    • This might be relevant to They Say / I Say
  • Generate questions to answer on your second reading — Updated on 2024-02-25 12:22:42
    • This seems to me the key part of this step. A good goal is everything. Approaching the text with prior concerns can be difficult if I don’t know what the text is about! Without a skimming of the text beforehand, the only information available to ask questions is from the prior sections of the book, table of contents, and headers/titles.
  • A very good system — Updated on 2024-02-25 12:28:59
    • I enthusiastically recommend anybody who is serious about reading for insights (and writing themselves) to learn about “Knowledge Bases” or “Zettelkasten” or “Personal Knowledge Management.”

My notes are not bridges to the understanding present in the book, like I gather is their role here. Instead, they are the building blocks of a greater corpus of wisdom sourced from all the books, articles, papers, and experiences I “read.” This system becomes a “Second Brain” that I use to enhance my own thinking, whether that be creatively, factually, or even in preparation to read new material.

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