The best thing about reading technical books is that it naturally leads one to get aquainted deeper with the topic at hand.
Usually many ideas spawn out of some brilliant work which is published for a while already and its really worthwhile to try to track down those.
Knowing history makes it easier to understand works which in some way depend on the original, even small bits - something called syntopical reading.
While this is obvious to many I’ve always struggled to get myself
to read those early works.
Now obvious question is what is the best book to read on the topic of reading books?
I think one of the best is “How to read a book” by Mortimer Adler. It is about all books and cannot recommend it highly enough. It is in public domain already unless I’m mistaken so here is a link [1].
Usually many ideas spawn out of some brilliant work which is published for a while already and its really worthwhile to try to track down those.
Knowing history makes it easier to understand works which in some way depend on the original, even small bits - something called syntopical reading.
While this is obvious to many I’ve always struggled to get myself to read those early works.
Now obvious question is what is the best book to read on the topic of reading books?
I think one of the best is “How to read a book” by Mortimer Adler. It is about all books and cannot recommend it highly enough. It is in public domain already unless I’m mistaken so here is a link [1].
[1] https://delong.typepad.com/files/adler-read.pdf