How I Consume Books

Re:How I Consume Books by misiti3780 on Thursday June 20, 2019 @09:24AM (#20232640)

I do something similar to "incremental reading" when reading all books (minus fiction, which i tend not to read). I use kindle highlights and notes to keep track of important sections of the books as i am reading them. Every few days, I export all my current notes to Anki and review them every day. This allows me to retain almost everything I read in some form, and also allows me to read many books at one time, especially technical books, because the topics etc are fresh in my mind.

I am not inherently anti-fiction, but there are way too many non-fiction books out there that I want to read that I cannot find them time.

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Re:How I Consume Books by rshudson on Thursday June 20, 2019 @09:35AM (#20232742)

Do you have an automated way to export your notes or is it manual?Would love to hear more about your workflow.

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Re:How I Consume Books by misiti3780 on Thursday June 20, 2019 @09:49AM (#20232883)

It's totally possible to automate the process using Anki Connect (Polar Bookshelf does this). But I tend to do it manually because I like to add context and pictures when appropriate.

When Im using it to learn something like a new spoken language, pictures and sounds are very important. When I am using it to learn a new computer language, it is important to provide context and a good example/card to remember some specific programming syntax or feature.

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