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  1. Dec 6, 2016 · Presumably on an ideas-per-hour-invested basis, summaries will win out over full books. Nobody will read even a fraction of all books, possibly not even a sizeable percentage of truly great books. The marginal value of reading an extra book doesn’t diminish quickly.

  2. Book summaries vs reading. Naturally, reading the book summary will never be as good as reading the whole book. A book summary deprives the text of subtleties of tone, style, and the colors of language, leaving only the essential ideas.

  3. You're explicitly not reading the book, your reading a summary of someone else's summery of the book. It's never going to be as valuable because the whole point of reading books, nonfiction especially is to be able to learn the nuances the author is discussing which can't be done with a 5 minute summary from someone else's interpretation.

  4. Apr 18, 2024 · When it comes to choosing between reading a full book or a summary, many people wonder which option is better. While summaries can provide a quick overview of a book’s content, there are several significant benefits to reading the full book.

  5. It is like this - if you want to quickly locate something, then Map is sufficient. However, the most important thing I feel for a self-help book is that to apply what you read. Otherwise, it doesn't matter whether you read summaries or books.

  6. 1.There are just too much information on summary, it can be sign that the source is informationally dense. It happend with me when I tried to find summary of "Now habit". In this case it's better to read the source book.

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  8. Aug 26, 2023 · A good book usually takes more than one week to read when you can dedicate 1525 minutes daily. So, there's no easy way to slice this pie. My mother tells me, "You never get the whole...