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[yankees60]

You’re cracking me up.
I suppose there’s no chance of me finishing the book before you do. It’s short, anyway.
I got a copy of Slow Horses book 5 in the mail today and switched to that. I’ll use my new-found techniques on it.

Your response served as a reminder to open that book NOW! I've done ENOUGH of my other things so it will be my reward for staying disciplined!

[yankees60]

You’re cracking me up.
I suppose there’s no chance of me finishing the book before you do. It’s short, anyway.
I got a copy of Slow Horses book 5 in the mail today and switched to that. I’ll use my new-found techniques on it.

Finished the book. Give it a B+.

Different than the two books I used in 1966 to 1968.

Much of the first section would be helpful for either students or business people who needed to learn / retain the information.

At this point for me almost all my reading is of pleasure.

I'd never preview any of my reading materials because I love the surprise factor when reading and much of that would go away via previewing.

In my particular case - which is different than most - there was a not of value to me (not saying it would not be for others) until I got to the Perpheral section.

That was something totally new for me. As, was most of the rest of the book.

Once I finished reading that section I went through the rest of the book, extremely quickly not reading every word.

That is somewhat how I will read an investing / personal finance book that I want to end up studying.

Like Bernsten's 2nd edition Four Pillars of Investing.

I flew through it in two days but did read every word. But that gave me a first familiarity with all that was on it.

Then I read it again in the next two days (had to take two days each time because I did have some softball games).

But this time it was much more slowly as I was deciding what to highlight.

Then for future study of the book I could just read all the highlighted sections.

But this was for a book I wanted to study and learn and retain.

The book I'm currently reading is Melania, which is better than I thought it was going to be.

But I'm just reading that for pleasure so I will be reading every word in the remainder of it but at maximum speed. I have about 50, 60 other library books piled up to read and each day eats up when they become due.

But getting back to this reading book.

It definitely covers all the basics though I disagree when it said you won't increase your vocabulary via simply reading. I did no vocabulary drills. Just looked up every single word I did not know. Sometimes the same ones 8 or 9 times until I finally learned them. Plus, I was already learning their meaning in context, which I would think is way more powerful than any other vocabulary drill.

So good find on your part.

I will go back to the Puerperal and from then on reading in a more slowly, studying fashion and do the drills that I believe will be helpful in increasing my reading speed.

[dualstow]

Much of the first section would be helpful for either students or business people who needed to learn / retain the information.

Yeah, I skipped the exercises in Part I, and the advice there could’ve been reduced to a couple sentences, but still helpful.

When I started reading the novel, I found I was missing things, so I went back to my my old way. I especially like to read dialogue word for word, ignoring speedreading advice to eliminate subvocalization. Especially when there’s new British slang to pick up.

But the tips I’ve learned so far were already helpful for an essay I was reading in ‘Foreign Affairs.’ I hope to get back to the speedreading book and finish it over the weekend.

[dualstow]

Frankly, I’m offended that I had to find out from bogleheads that you switched to the new computer.