1, the only way to read
Read only one book at a time. Zeng Guofan, a politician in the Qing Dynasty, read it like this: "A hundred schools of thought contend and sweat, or he wants to read, but it is not appropriate to read a person's books from east to west." This reading method is most suitable for people who want to practice basic skills and lay a solid foundation for academic research.
2. Wave gradual method
Read one book at a time, but don't try to finish it all at once. You can read it again later. When time is short, or when reading some "difficult" books, you might as well adopt this method.
3. Choose your words carefully
This method pays attention to reading word by word, and reads it carefully. A good work contains a lot of information and gold content, and high-speed reading will inevitably lead to indigestion, so you must think while reading. Qin Mu, an essayist, first read "swallowed the whale" roughly, and then "chewed the cow", studying the taste carefully like a cow ruminating. Reading with your eyes is just a matter of seeing and reading with your heart. Careful choice of words is especially suitable for reading classics.
4. Extraction method of essence
For some works, we should not only read intensively, but also summarize and refine the essence. Historian Wu Han is particularly good at making reading cards. When he was reading, he copied useful sentences on cards. He has read books for decades and made hundreds of thousands of cards. After reading a book, if you can really extract a few useful words, even if you don't read it in vain.