How to Read a Book

[Sirchud68]

Book Darts. Best of both worlds.

[The3nlightened0ne]

I've been reading books from libraries for many years now, so I guess I have to buy books from now on.

[Neropatti]

Thank you, kind man, for this insight. A whole day of sickleave youtube watching behind me and this is the first really worthwhile thing I came across.

[italmia]

noo underlining. noooooooooooo

[glewis163]

I underline my ibooks for ipad... God bless technology

[infinatycount1]

book about books thats funny

[Velkar182]

I don't write in my books, usually. I just keep note books dedicated to a particular group of books. Marginalia can be useful sometimes, but I have found that when I mark books up, it forces me to miss things that I didn't pick out as important, whereas if I had read the book without marginalia I would have noticed different things. I don't wish to see the same book the same way every time I read it.

[1000HPCLUB]

Thanks for the video!



[Helios601]

I've just finnished Ulysses, no scanning, no skipping, just reading, every last word. Theres a lot of joker readers out there who kid themself they read.

[nikol4iste]

I just use google.

[tristramshandy3]

Books are the treasured wealth of the world- from Walden by Thoreau.

Read the Essays of Montaigne if you want to have a TON of fun :)

Great video. Thanks for sharing.

[leahcortina]

....... u mark your books with pencil lines?! how dare u deface a good book?! u vandal! :P

hmmm, i dont think i can bring myself up to "mark" pages in a book by pencil or pen(or any other writing material) :/

i cannot imagine myself writing on a page of a perfectly good novel... its just not right :P

these are my opinions tho... no offense, this may work for other people :)

[hajjashali]

nowadays you have those little thin finger size stick-ons and you just use those whereever you find something interesting in a book. You can also write a small note on the stick-on and paste it where you need to!

[bigbear359]

Thanks i will give it a try. The problem for me is to over come the message i was taught as a child which was never write in a book. Your right about books that are keepers i have many of those.Useful info -thanks

[MrPhotographicMemory]

Here is an interesting Youtube video - Search for "Speed Reading vs. Mental Photography" Fascinating information on how to activate your photographic memory!

[bhuiyan125]

I love ur videos

but i dont like to read

[chibbledorf]

I like your videos, you should do more - common sense & practical without the fluff.

[CerritosCollege]

Unfortunately there is no silver bullet to cure this common desire. Making the notes as I suggest in this video is merely one of many available methods to increase retention. Be creative and seek alternatives that work for you and your style. One other method I use when available is to purchase the book and the audio book. Having it in two formats and media is also useful and aids learning.

[TheSeekerOfKnowledge]

Jim : Could you recommend me any book on how to read a book properly and retain most of it. Beside the Alder title, have you got any suggestions of books & articles ?

[TheSeekerOfKnowledge]

Hello Jim,

What's the name of the book you're holding (at 4mins 10 seconds of the video)

This does not seems to be the book "How to read a book" from Adler

[CerritosCollege]

You are right; it is not the Adler book. To illustrate this technique I chose What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response by Bernard Lewis. It was close at hand and was a good example.

[thekoolaidmom]

to answer what I do in the "What's that quote from?" scenario....

It's called Google... lol.

I used to underline, highlight and dog-ear, but since I started using BookMooch, I've gone to keeping a notebook of copied down quotes with page numbers. That way the next person who gets the book can have a "new book" experience.

Great info :-)

[Xshortie24X]

Wonderful information. Thanks very much.

[ejalal33]

thanks! this is very informative!

[yahags]

Next question: Why read books. :)

[LoveShallThee]

to get challenged ;)

[Guaguanco11]

I learnt this lesson from a paper by M. Adler titled 'How to read great books'.

[jazzmanEE]

very helpful.thanks

[HollywoodUndeadRULES]

sweet, we have much in common you and i.

[JesseQuintana]

dude I need to read I never do. thanks for the info!

[hwatlko]

It very help <thank you.

[jerrilynn]

Great information! Thanks.