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.
- Table of contents, glossary, index.
 - Anything in bold, titles, and subtitles.
 - First line of every paragraph.
 - Entire book
 Here’s the twist: Steps 1-3 should only take about 10 minutes.