How do I read books better?

Charles Tips, Editor, Writer, Venture Entrep... (more) 

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From my professor of 20th-century philosophy, Thomas K. Seung, on being told by a student that he was taking Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics...

[Chortle] "You Americans! You want to do everything faster and faster. Let me tell you something... If you read a book, a book that is worth reading, any faster than the author wrote it, you are doing yourself and the author a disservice."

I am a very, very slow reader. The time spent turning the author's ideas over and over again, is the value in reading.

  

Written 29 May.