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In textbooks and really anything but fiction I examine the structure of the text to get the important content.
Chapter headings, topics, subheadings, etc are very important, but so are topic sentences. You can learn almost everything you need by just reading the first sentence in each paragraph. For more complicated texts, the last sentences in each paragraph might be necessary.
So, I will skim through, absorb these basic parts of the text. And then where my curiosity takes me I'll read in more depth, or where I'm confused, or where I just don't feel like I know enough.
The way to really remember these things are to consciously manipulate the information. What do the things that you're reading about me? What connections can you make? The more investment you have in the material, the more it will hold your attention.
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