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how to read a lot of books in a short time

Matt’s Idea Blog: How to read a lot of books in a short time

The most useful technique comes from Jason Womack, and synthesizes nicely the most common ideas. In a nutshell, he says he reads the book four times.

  1. Table of contents, glossary, index.
  2. Anything in bold, titles, and subtitles.
  3. First line of every paragraph.
  4. Entire book

Here’s the twist: Steps 1-3 should only take about 10 minutes.

Posted by Adam on July 18, 2006 11:22 AM |

Comments

Thanks for the link!

Posted by: Matthew Cornell | July 18, 2006 3:14 PM

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