Try it! I predict, however, that you’ll get bored because of the mass of material and won’t consistently do the reviews. When I first started making flashcards, I too ignored the “minimum information principle” (from http://www.supermemo.com/articles/20rules.htm). However, experience has taught me to value it. Also, after reading a given page, how would you say whether or not you needed to do it again again? That seems impossible unless the piece of information you’re querying is very small.
How would you add Godel, Escher, Bach to an SRS in question-answer format?
While reading the book, highlight key sentences in the text that summarize main ideas. Then use cloze deletion on (the main ideas from) those sentences. You could also try to spice in some specific questions that probe your understanding of a particular key idea, although those would be more challenging to make.
These might be useful to me, as I read GEB about 3.5 years ago and now forget much of it. So if you do this, please consider posting your flashcards for others to use.
Try it! I predict, however, that you’ll get bored because of the mass of material and won’t consistently do the reviews. When I first started making flashcards, I too ignored the “minimum information principle” (from http://www.supermemo.com/articles/20rules.htm). However, experience has taught me to value it. Also, after reading a given page, how would you say whether or not you needed to do it again again? That seems impossible unless the piece of information you’re querying is very small.
While reading the book, highlight key sentences in the text that summarize main ideas. Then use cloze deletion on (the main ideas from) those sentences. You could also try to spice in some specific questions that probe your understanding of a particular key idea, although those would be more challenging to make.
These might be useful to me, as I read GEB about 3.5 years ago and now forget much of it. So if you do this, please consider posting your flashcards for others to use.