• The 6 P's of the Reading 📖 Process

    Prime
    Peek
    Peruse
    Participate
    Prudent
    Post mortem
    Prime
    Why am I reading this 📖?
    What do I seek to discover from it?
    What do I know about the subject?
    What do I know about the author?

    Peer
    Our cursory peek may include peeking for the following
    A table of contents, footnotes and an index etc
    Headings and subheadings
    Introductions and conclusions
    How the book 📙 is arranged
    What the blurb on the front and back claims

    Peruse
    We do this by flickering the pages at the rate of a page 📄 per second 🕒
    What is the style of the book 📕 like?
    Are there key words or concept which keep coming up?
    Are the sections highlighted at the peer stage the right ones?
    Is there any technical ⚙️ terminology? Where is it?

    Participate
    Now is the real time ⏲️ for reading 📖
    Here we read every first and last sentence of each paragraph
    Possible the first and last paragraphs of the chapters identified
    Again we mark up the area which are most relevant to our purpose

    Prudent
    This is all about speed reading of marked area

    Postmortem
    This is all about the process of reading 📖
    What worked?
    What helped?
    Where was time of Comprehension lost?

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