Outline

• Part I
  • 4 Stages of Reading
  • Inspectional reading
    • Inspectional Reading I - Systematic Skimming or Pre-reading
      • 1. Read the Preface
      • 2. Read sthe publisher's blurb
      • 3. Read the Table of Contents
      • 4. Read the Index
      • 5. Skimming through the paragraphs here there
    • Inspectional Reading II - Superficial reading
    • How to be a demanding reader
  • Part II
    • Analytical Reading
      • First Stage
        • 4 Rules
      • Second Stage
        • Coming to Term

Mentioned ideas

Reading is catching balls

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What do you have remember about reading speed?:: Every book should be read no more slowly than it deserves, and no more quickly than you can read it with satisfaction and comprehension.

6 things to read in inspectional reading I - skimming? ?

1. Read the Preface
2. Study the ToC
3. Read the Index
4. Read the publisher's blurb
5. Pivotal chapters
6. Turns the pages, dipping here and there

What are the four questions to ask when reading? /? (this is confusing with "4 rules of analytics reading")

• What the book is about as a whole?
• What structual approach that the author take to develops his ideas, claims?
• Are what the books claim truthy as a whole as a part?
• What insights you get from the book?

Three kinds of note-taking? ?

• Structural notes
• Conceptual notes
• Dilectical notes

How to superficial-reading?:: Don't stop on difficult points.

Practice proper is similar to practice skiiing in what way?:: You have to follow odds separated rules. After awhile, the rules coalesce and automatic executed.

According to the "Practical vs. Theoretical Books" section, how to make knowledge practical?:: convert it into rules of operation (knowing what is the case to knowing what todo about it)

What is the name of the characteristic of how historical book laying out their content?:: chronotopic

4 rules of the first stage of Analytical Reading? ?

• Pigeonholing the book.
• State the book's unity.
• Know the parts and the outline.
• Stands in the author's feet, know his intention.

What to remember of about this book's recommendation's stages of reading?:: not necessarity chronological.

What to remeber when making books' outlines?:: "No book deserves a perfect outline because no book is perfect".