Nathan Payne shares his reading method: annotate with a pencil and write down key takeaways to create a "paper memory" you can revisit without rereading the whole book. He's used this on Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Book of Mormon. Written notes are gold for keeping what matters.
So when I read, I used to just read. Just read, try to get through a book start to finish. I read a book called The Mysteries, one of my favorite books from one of my mentors. I call him my mentor because he's taught me a lot through his book. The Majesty of Books. He says when you read, you have to do a couple things. Always read with a pencil so you can mark and learn. Write down what you get out of those books and then you'll have like a paper memory of all the books that you've read. So you don't have to just have it all memorized and you'll forget. So in this book of ideas, I read through The Majesty of Books, The Book of Mormon, Crime and Punishment, Acts in the Bible, Notes from a Dead House, a bunch of books from Fyodor Dostoevsky. "Fyrvana," "Sacrament Prayers," "The Idiot" is another book from Dostoevsky, a bunch of other stuff. So what I have here are just notes from those books. So instead of having to go read that whole book, like if I didn't want to, I can go and say, what were the best highlights that I got out of those materials? According to Sill, Sterling Sill, who wrote "The Majesty of Books," he says these are the most valuable books. Those books are great that you got the knowledge from, but what you got out of it and what you wrote down, that's, that's gold.
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