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Re:How I read books: a guide on how to learn by garden_hermit on Friday December 04, 2020 @09:43AM (#25302712)
Building on this advice, I highy recommend the essay titled "How to Read a Book" by Paul Edwards:

https://pne.people.si.umich.edu/PDF/howtoread.pdf

Edwards is an academic historian of science who write incredibly long and dense books drawing on hundreds of sources. If anyone knows how to read, its him, and his advice was truly useful for my own reading.

Re:How I read books: a guide on how to learn by isthatsoup on Friday December 04, 2020 @02:21PM (#25306502)
Thanks for this. I clicked on this thread thinking "why should I care about how den zhadanov reads books? what has he accomplished exactly?" and confirmed my suspicious when I saw the picture of him reading one of those junk business self help books. Snake oil.

This person, however, seems worthy of consideration.

Re:How I read books: a guide on how to learn by hckrnrd on Saturday December 05, 2020 @09:48AM (#25314910)
“junk business self help books.”

Indeed many a bookshelf is littered with such babble, but to group Nobel laureate, Danny Khaneman[1] into that group would be a gross overestimation.

[1] https://www.britannica.com/biography/Daniel-Kahneman

Re:How I read books: a guide on how to learn by nosmokewhereiam on Friday December 04, 2020 @02:32PM (#25306619)
This is awesome: It's useful, it's enlightening, and I wouldn't have found this without your comment. Thank you!
Re:How I read books: a guide on how to learn by lappet on Friday December 04, 2020 @01:08PM (#25305645)
Thank you for sharing this. I seem to follow some of his methods and there are some I need to adopt.
Re:How I read books: a guide on how to learn by Denzhadanov on Monday December 07, 2020 @04:14PM (#25337629)
Thank you for the advice! I'll add that to the list