Has anyone tried the Marshall McLuhan method of only reading the right page of non-fiction works? I'm trying to figure out how to get through books quicker while still appropriately understanding them.
>>24944510doing this would mess with my ocd
>>24944510I've adopted his method of sampling page 69 of any book I'm unsure about reading.
Why aren't you using chatGPT or notebookLM? It is definitely better than that crap.
>>24944510>read books quickerngmi
>>24944604I don't like that either. I just take my time, and I would spend my time struggling to understand something than rushing through a bunch of stupid books.
>>24944510I don't know about this method and don't really see the reason behind it. It would take more time for me to figure out the missing ideas to understand the following ideas built on them. I would assume you need to figure out how to work more efficient. Drink coffee. Maybe read a book like Deep Work from Newport to get more quality work done. It is originally for these wannabe business bros, but it gives a basic understanding. But just read books how they are supposed to be read.
>>24944510Stupidest idea ever. I liked his the medium is the massage text but this...Why not just read the fucking text lmao
>>24944510The idea is that you are forced to think about it and piece together what the book is trying to say, rather than just reading the words and moving on. It would take you longer than normal.Also, it’s a retarded idea
>>24944510>I'm trying to figure out how to get through books quicker Not the point.>>24944867You're getting at the reason. McLuhan said he did this not to read faster, but to stay more alert and less sleepy during long reading sessions. Having to guess at the missing contents made him grapple much deeper with what he was reading. It was a way of "active" reading as opposed to being something for speed.>>24944904See above
>>24944510The nice thing about having a decent education is it teaches you to skim books. You all need a teacher in your life who will demand you read a book in an afternoon and then humiliate you the next day with a public grilling about it's contents. I read books like I'm doom-scrolling and just pick out the parts that are relevant.
skip right to the middle of the book. its like cutting into a steak to see if its rare
>>24944979i think this relies on a canon/organon distinction, like, you read the assignments from the canon (historical texts as poetry, philosophy, etc) versus you skim assignments from the organon (university knowledge production, as fact gathering, criticism, theory, analysis, etc)
>>24944990my dad calls this the page 72 test
>>24944990>>24944998How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler. Read that. Ideally, you use the book in itself as you read as a practical exercise of its theory.
>>24944510I dont know if this works with books, but it works with horribly long "Am I the asshole? Be me, (27m), and my gf (16f)..." type stories that go off on long pointless tangents >read the first sentence of a paragraph>read the final sentence of a paragraph>skip all the middle shit The first sentence introduces the idea. The final sentence summarizes the paragraph. Everything in between is just pointless backstory about how seven years ago they had a watch that got a scratch in it so actually blah blah blah...
>>24945131I always do that on the internet, sometimes I won't even bother reading the start. I will just read the finish of it and not bother reading the rest of it.
>>24944510imma try it
maybe ill try it, but i think i'd be inclined to not-skip if i came upon an interesting part. going by the amount of references in his books this guy mcluhan read a lot
