Some Helpful Tips:
1.) Read a summary. Watch the author on YouTube or on a podcast. I like to hear the authors voice. So I can hear it when I read. Read chapter titles intro and conclusion. Headings of chapters. Thumb through the book. Find the melody of the book.
2.) Guide Your Eyes With A Pen
3.) Don’t read near the margins.
4.) Don’t say words with your mouth. Chew Gum.
5.) Feel everything picture what is going on.
6.) Take breaks. Read for twenty minutes and water the plants.
7.) Always keep a book with you: physical or on your phone.
8.) The best reading is rereading. C.S. Lewis said he had a hard time reading new books he liked reading once again what he had done before. There are some great books that we should take time and master. Perhaps read once a year.
“Peruse a good book several times and make notes and analyses of it. A student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by twenty books he has merely skimmed. Little learning and much pride comes from hasty reading. Some men are disabled from thinking by their putting meditation away for the sake of much reading. In reading let your motto be ‘much not many’” (Charles Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students).
