Re:How to Read a Book [pdf]
by rubiquity on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @11:56AM
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Would you have been able to distill the information down like that without reading the more thorough/verbose versions first? If you come back to the reduced sentence in 6 months will you find yourself wondering where the pre-existing information comes from?
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I have actually opened to book on a random page I don't remember reading, then looked for a relevant sentence.
You're right about excluding information (as in my third example), but my second example has practically all of it and is still much shorter