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12321247 No.12321247 [Reply] [Original]

When reading numerous books on a subject, what's the best way to really retain the information? I want to be able to read multiple philosophical works and form an opinion from everything instead of just forgetting the work I'm reading by the time I finish the next one.

>> No.12321264

>>12321247
Write it down. Reread it. Discuss it with people.

>> No.12321266

Take notes. Copy key phrases and passages.

>> No.12321370

>>12321247
Take extensive notes and return to them.

>> No.12321377

>>12321264
>>12321266
>>12321370
How can I be sure which parts are important enough to write down? Just whatever feels potentially relevant to something I'm going to read later?

>> No.12321400

>>12321377
why so insecure, just pick the things that you find interesting and engaging, we can read the same book and put weight on different parts of it

>> No.12321404

It's not about retaining information.

It's about embodying the truth.

>> No.12321411

>>12321400
It's just that I'm a brainlet and am prone to forgetting, misunderstanding and misremembering things and I don't want to walk around with a bunch of wrong shit in my head and not know it.

>> No.12321440

>>12321247
Write about it, keep a catalog, use index cards with your catalog to make a bibliographic index of the material, your notes and citations/whatever else.

>> No.12321443

>>12321440
>use index cards with your catalog to make a bibliographic index of the material
Do what now?

>> No.12321448

>>12321411
Just read it. Find others who read it and discuss it with them. Take notes and don't be so insecure.

>> No.12321468

>>12321266
Is it good to underline passages?, i hate transcribing

>> No.12321523

>>12321404
This desu. All you need to do is comprehend.

>> No.12321539

>>12321411
There's nothing wrong with a little misunderstanding so long as you learn from it. Check your notes and compare what you took away from the reading with what others did, sometimes you will pick up on a seemingly insignificant idea that you don't understand until it synethizes with another idea.
Read some epistemology, it will help you a lot.

>> No.12321625

>>12321468
If you don't want to copy sentences word-for-word, you can try to summarise them as briefly as possible.