# Reading (MoC)
## Notes
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- [[Analog Reading, Digital Knowledge - The Full Pipeline From Paper Notes to AI Skills (Article)]]
- [[Antilibrary]]
- [[Benefits of reading]]
- [[Benefits of taking notes while reading]]
- [[Books are linear presentations of graph-structured knowledge]]
- [[Books are the only thing our eyes can eat]]
- [[Evening Routine]]
- [[Everyone Told Me This Reading Method Was Wrong. Now I Read 3X More Books and Never Get Bored (Article)]]
- [[How I manage books and summaries in Obsidian (Article)]]
- [[How to capture book notes and turn those into smart notes (Article)]]
- [[How to take notes while reading non-fiction books]]
- [[Interleaving books]]
- [[Interleaving books (Article)]]
- [[Introducing the Obsidian Starter Kit (Article)]]
- [[Introducing the Personal Knowledge Management Library (Article)]]
- [[Many people forget or neglect to take notes]]
- [[Marginalia is not knowledge management]]
- [[30 Areas/33 Permanent notes/33.02 Content/Morning Routine.md|Morning Routine]]
- [[Obsidian Starter Kit - Tutorial - Managing Books]]
- [[Reading feeds writing]]
- [[Research, Read, Assimilate. Rinse and repeat]]
- [[Rules for reading]]
- [[The Art of Reading Slowly - Why Speed Isn't Everything (Article)]]
- [[The Capture Habit (Article)]]
- [[Thieves as a pre-reading strategy]]
- [[Tips to retain more of what you read]]
- [[We all read and learn from tons of articles every day. And still, we mostly fail to share what we learn with others]]
- [[When you read a lot, you're building a mental framework for yourself]]
- [[Why book highlights are not enough]]
- [[Why Take and Make Notes (Article)]]
- [[Why take notes while reading]]
- [[Why you should take notes while reading non-fiction books (Article)]]
- [[You Aren't Gonna Read It (YAGRI)]]
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## Quotes
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- [[‘Classic’ – a book which people praise and don’t read]]
- [[A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought]]
- [[A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read]]
- [[Books are like imprisoned souls until some one takes them down from a shelf and reads them]]
- [[Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in. But as a rule, the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents]]
- [[Don't just say that you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better]]
- [[Either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing]]
- [[Every book teaches me something new or helps me see things differently. Reading fuels a sense of curiosity about the world, which I think helped drive me forward in my career and work]]
- [[Every reader finds himself]]
- [[He would never go out without a book under one arm and he would often return with two]]
- [[I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library]]
- [[I wouldn't want a library full of books I have read already. I want mine to always be full of new things to explore and enjoy]]
- [[If writing is thinking then what happens if AI is doing the writing and reading]]
- [[If you don't control what you choose to consume, you lose control over your thoughts]]
- [[If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that]]
- [[If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking]]
- [[It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it]]
- [[It would be a good thing to buy books if one could also buy the time to read them; but one usually confuses the purchase of books with the acquisition of their contents]]
- [[It’s pretty simple. Either you read or you don’t. If you read, you probably want to do it more. If you don’t read, I’m not going to convince you to put down the remote]]
- [[Less is more when it comes to reading non-fiction. I took many weeks to read The Personal MBA, and learned a lot more than I would have if I just rushed through the content]]
- [[Literacy is liberation]]
- [[Literature is the only art where somebody says, I read that once. You don’t say that about your favorite album]]
- [[Not all writing is worth reading. Just because someone can put words on a page doesn’t mean they are worth reading or add value. Every minute you waste reading something bad is a minute that could've been spent reading something great]]
- [[Once you learn to read, you will be forever free]]
- [[One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books. Bad books are intellectual poison. They destroy the mind]]
- [[Read everything. But remember, a book is only a book. You must learn to think for yourself]]
- [[Read less, take notes, and retain more]]
- [[Read to fill your mind, write to clear your mind]]
- [[Reading a book isn’t a race. The better the book, the slower it should be absorbed]]
- [[Reading brings us unknown friends]]
- [[Reading deeply changes the way we perceive the world. It changes us and the way we act]]
- [[Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are]]
- [[Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own]]
- [[Reading is for gaining knowledge. Notetaking is for retaining wisdom]]
- [[Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude]]
- [[Reading without writing misses 90% of the benefits]]
- [[Smart people read (a lot)]]
- [[Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested]]
- [[Someone who loves to read will forever be free]]
- [[The best teacher is a good book]]
- [[The book is to be read in silence by the reader, and it's written in silence by me. I don't need to know what it sounds like out loud. I need to know what it reads like]]
- [[The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity]]
- [[The goal is not to read faster and go through as many books as you can, but rather to retain more of what you read through active reading. You read slower but get a lot more out of it]]
- [[The more you read, the smarter you get. Especially when you capture and connect the ideas, knowledge, and wisdom]]
- [[The most precious thing is a book. It's always there, it's faithful. You can read and re-read it. It's a marvelous partner. You can open and look at it whenever. It never leaves us]]
- [[There is no friend as loyal as a book]]
- [[Understanding comes in naturally. Speaking comes out naturally. Reading comes in naturally. Writing comes out through study]]
- [[We never read the same book twice. Because we’ve changed. The perceptions about the book have changed. What we’re going through in this very moment is new and different]]
- [[When we read, another person thinks for us. We merely repeat his mental process]]
- [[When you are consumed by thoughts, write. When you are uninspired, read]]
- [[When you choose what to watch or read, you are choosing your future thoughts and perspectives. Consume what you’d like to become]]
- [[Writers die twice—when they breathe their last breath, and when they cease being read]]
- [[You don't like reading because you haven't found the right book yet]]
- [[Your writing can only be as good as the best stuff you’ve read]]
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