I’ve found Adler’s & Van Doren’s “How to Read a Book” a consistently useful source of ideas & techniques in the last few years (h/t @collision). But I’ve never explicitly applied the *full* procedure of analytical reading to any text.
Have any of you? Worth the marginal benefit?
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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
