Second the vote for this book, though there is quite a bit of fluff (most of the chapters on strategies for readings specific topics I found less than useful) - it really does a great job of explaining how to extract information from a book.
The key insight I took away was that a book isn’t just a long string of words broken up into various sections—a book is a little machine that produces an argument, and to really understand that argument you need to figure out what the machine is doing.
Second the vote for this book, though there is quite a bit of fluff (most of the chapters on strategies for readings specific topics I found less than useful) - it really does a great job of explaining how to extract information from a book.
The key insight I took away was that a book isn’t just a long string of words broken up into various sections—a book is a little machine that produces an argument, and to really understand that argument you need to figure out what the machine is doing.