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If the author (or anybody) really wants to absorb knowledge from books, it's simple and only takes two steps: 1. Take notes while reading, which usually also h
by teraku 6y ago
If the author (or anybody) really wants to absorb knowledge from books, it's simple and only takes two steps:
1. Take notes while reading, which usually also has the side-effect that you have to re-read passage around your note taking
2. Convert notes to Flashcards utilising SRS (spaced repetition systems like Anki)
Thus all the info you noted and found interesting will go into your long(er)-term memory.
But that's not why we read most books now, is it?
- adolph 6y agoThe author is right there with you on this. If we consider books a knowledge transfer tool then the basic literacy training provided by most education systems lacks the information pipeline and tooling you describe, see Matuschak on transformative tools for thought [0]. The basic problem space is summarized as "books are surprisingly bad at conveying knowledge, and readers mostly don’t realize it." [1] 0. https://numinous.productions/ttft/ https://numinous.productions/ttft/ 1. https://andymatuschak.org/books/ https://andymatuschak.org/books/