How To Read A Book

For those of us whose life involves reading on a regular basis, I recommend How To Read A Book, by Mortimer Adler. While the text is somewhat dry and academic, his tips are highly useful for extracting the most from a book without reading it cover to cover.

Some of his top ideas include-

• Use the Table of Contents to get page count and learn what the author(s) wrote the most about
• Read the first and last pages of a chapter to get an idea of topics covered
• Use syntopical reading (reading several books on a subject) to thoroughly understand a topic

Website for word generation

I'm working on memorizing lists of up to twenty words. To assist with generating random words, I found the following website- http://euclid.psych.yorku.ca/cgi/sascgi

After creating a random list, I use my version of a memory peg system (re: Dominic O'Brien's Learn To Remember). The pegs for 1-20 are:

Tea
Noah
May
Ray
Law
Jaw
Key
Fee
Bee
ToeS
TaT
TaN
ToM
TaR
TaiL
TaJ
TacK
TaFfy
TaB
NoSe