Timeline for How do people read big technical books?
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| May 4, 2011 at 9:14 | comment | added | Dalbir Singh | @CodexArcanum - My reaction was identical to yours as soon as I read the post, I like highlighting, but doing that on a nice textbox is just vandalisim lol... but then I realised something.... in the context of those huge technical bibles, once your done with the book (6 months to a year) will you really sell it on? ... would the text not become slightly outdated? Dare I say it, I might try highlighting | |
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| Apr 24, 2011 at 1:24 | comment | added | user1249 | @Codex, highlighting is the dead tree version of syntax colouring. | |
| Nov 9, 2010 at 16:01 | comment | added | Steven Evers | The time taken also depends on what else you're reading. I'm never reading just one book at a time. For me it usually goes: 1-2 for work, 1 for personal study, 1 for leisure (usually a novel) and 1 for the bathroom. | |
| Nov 9, 2010 at 14:05 | comment | added | Joonas Pulakka | I like highlighting because most programming books, including CC, have quite a poor signal to noise -ratio. It's all "blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah a good point blah blah blah blah". After a couple of decades it will be totally obsolete, so it's kind of different from traditional literature; no need to keep it tidy, IMO. | |
| Nov 9, 2010 at 13:59 | comment | added | CodexArcanum | Shudder Highlighting! What kind of monster defaces a perfectly lovely book! Notes are good though. CC is a great book, though I admit to skimming over bits of it. Some of the advice just isn't really necessary in C# (and some of it very much is!) | |
| Nov 9, 2010 at 13:58 | comment | added | ChaosPandion | @Joonas - I can read that fast but I sacrifice a bit of comprehension. I can't speak for @gablin but I get the feeling it's similar. | |
| Nov 9, 2010 at 13:25 | comment | added | Joonas Pulakka | Of course a lot depends on what else you're working on while reading. If you spent less than a month with CC, it's ~ 40 pages/day, and assuming hour per day on average it's quite a pace. Congratulations :) | |
| Nov 9, 2010 at 11:49 | comment | added | gablin | 6 months? Geez, I made through it in less than a months - it was such a good read that I couldn't stop reading it. | |
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