I've read things that closely, or closer - some mathematics that I really wanted to master inside and out. But I remember concluding that much of Adler and Van Doren's prescriptions just seemed off, like they were theorizing, and hadn't really done it themselves.
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That was certainly the case for their discussion of how to read technical books, which is well intentioned but not very good. The advice on more general reading is much better, but I doubt that it quite described how they themselves read. More a theory of how they ought to read
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