It's ridiculous, are you telling me they really read 100+ books all on this obscure subject???
Not an author but i have three degrees and would have referenced 500+ references in that time and I probably read less than 2% of them. This is surely the standard experience?
>>25217468I assume that sometimes a single chapter from a book is sufficient for their needs. In other cases they are probably aware of the original thought from different source and only need to consult the position in order to reference it. Mostly they are bloating their bibliographies because they don't give a shit and nobody does either, though. Universities deserve scissors cutting through them like almost nothing else.
>>25217468No, of course not. Professional readers know how to get the information they need out of a book without reading it from cover to cover. There's literally nothing wrong with that.
>>25217480Isnt that why Tai Lopez only reads the first page of every chapter and then claims he read the whole book?
