I read this book called something like “the writing lives of great authors” and each chapter was dedicated to an author, of whom they provided a little biographical info & their style in approaching their workday

Despite the brevity allowed in just a chapter, I still remember a fair bit so it proved useful

Anyway, know of something similar? Any interesting group of people would do, really.

the book of life is very strange. the author of the book is the creator of the creation, sometimes the person himself. the stories in this book are ordinary but the memories in the stories are extraordinary. every human being has a different starting page in the book of life. is the last page different?

the last page of the book of life

not happiness pain is the companion. I saw Imperfection Day After day in search a perfection. I bore the pain of failur in the struggling forsuccesss. meeting with separation in search of love. the last line of the last page tells the meaning of life that is" only regret".

I think it's every human being life of story.

I'm reading a lot this year and kinda happy with it. To maximize my learning, I create summaries for the books I find most valuable. However, my current process is time-consuming, often taking 3-4 hours per book on average (and even longer in some cases; hello fellow perfectionists!). I don't think this is sustainable, and I'm questioning the effectiveness of my summaries, as I often forget most of my notes and don't revisit them regularly. I'm looking for ways to create high-quality summaries more efficiently, ideally within 30-60 minutes of finishing a book, assuming I've taken notes and highlighted key passages during reading.

My current process involves:

1. Highlighting resonating or surprising text while reading, without consciously considering how it contributes to the summary

2. Transferring highlights from paper books to Obsidian notes

3. Organizing the highlights into a summarized version of the book

If you have any insights, frameworks or tips to share from your own experience creating efficient and impactful book summaries, I'd be deeply grateful. Thank you in advance for your help!

I would also love to read research papers about the said topic, thanks everyone in advance!

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Dive into the secrets of the "Paperclip" program and uncover why NASA concealed the Nazi background of its leading scientists. Discover the harrowing tale of a Russian cosmonaut who nearly lost his life when his suit inflated, preventing him from fitting through the pod's door. And explore the possibility of future space travel being as simple as taking an elevator ride.

An easy read with just 162 pages.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CBL9X3G2

A science fiction classic from the man who essentially established the genre. Written in 1864, but from the perspective of Verne’s present day, it also reads like historical fiction and classic adventure novels. A short, fun read that is also an interesting view into the scientific mysteries of the late 19th century.

Some favorite phrases:

• “barbarous appellations which would blister the lips of a poet” (p2)
• “I never grow weary in the society of my beloved stones” (p4)
• “an invention of learned men to mystify the poor world” (p8)
• “pitch the soup to the devil and the cook too, and those who eat it” (p8)
• “the pleasure of roaming over an unknown country on horseback” (p59)
• “I was reveling in the magical delight which is awakened in the mind by all great elevations” (p80)
• “facts, as usual, give lie to theories” (p117)
• “imagination is such a strange faculty, I gave myself up to a childish curiosity” (p199)

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Hi, I'm a techie who also enjoy reading books, mostly non-fiction. I've build up a tool that helps reader who like to promote or share their book recommendations on the socials. Now and then I like to update new books that im reading to keep it updated, not sure if yall will find it useful but here's the tool https://www.booklinkr.com/ . Since its a inactive project now, probably wont have much feature update but do let me know what you guys think about it, hope some find it useful at least hehe. This is my personal library: https://www.booklinkr.com/bryan-the-founder

Hello! What are some good books on perimenopause

Hey r/nonfictionbookclub!

I wanted to share something that I've been working on lately - a website dedicated to providing high-quality, detailed chapter-level summaries of a rapidly growing collection of non-fiction books (http://www.booksummary.pro). The collection was curated by scanning Amazon bestsellers, top recommendations on Goodreads, and a bit of personal input.

What sets this website apart is that it's entirely non-profit, with no ads, no affiliate links, and no distractions whatsoever. My goal was to create a clean, noise-free platform that offers a better experience than the paid services or ad-filled websites out there when it comes to accessing book summaries.

Whether you're short on time, want to get a quick overview before diving into a book, or simply prefer condensed versions, this site has you covered.

If you think any specific summaries could be improved, please let me know! Happy reading!

Hi Folks,

What are the helpful books for a layman to understand unconscious mind and use it for bias free decision making?

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Thanks

Any recommendations of english books in the field of translation studies, Interpretation, foreign language studies and teaching... (or in other fields), that are not already translated to Arabic. Thanks in advance.

Currently reading “General Chemistry” by Linus Pauling and it’s fascinating. Would love to have a buddy to learn and discuss chemistry and biology with and its applications. Anyone interested?

Hello, I recently actively started reading non-fiction, and that's because of college, I read books related to my profession with the aim of learning something from them ( origin of species, first three minutes, gods particle, hacking darwin... ), but I have the feeling that nothing enters my head, and after a few months I can only superficially remember what happens in the book. I watched various tutorials on the net about "note taking", but most of those videos are made for taking notes directly for a specific research or work, for which it is necessary to allocate much more time.

I'm interested in how you take notes for certain books that you might need, but maybe you'll never even think about such topics again?

Curious what you all might have found to be good books about reading books. Especially about reading non-fiction books but also more generally. Thanks!

I wasn't a big fan of nike but I was actually interested in the fact that, NIKE a shoe company is actually as big as TCS one the largest public companies in India.

So I started reading this book & it turns out that NIKE isn't actually started out as shoe company which manufactures shoe but it started out as a shoe trading company named BLUE RIBBON, which importants shoe from a Japan & sells it in US.

After reading this book what's most fascinating about the book is the logical behind which Mr.PHIL started this company is that in his time in Stanford, he saw that Japanese made camera displaced German made camera & became market, so PHIL believed that eventually Japanese shoes will replace German shoes which was holding lion's share in shoe and he ended up building 150+ billion dollars firm.

That's the moment I understood entrepreneurs are crazy. What's your thoughts about the book.

I read it in the 1990’s - it was about a medical system (perhaps a hospital) that would find out what patient’s insurance benefits were as soon as they were admitted, and treat to those benefits.

For example, Insurance pays for 9 hospital nights? Suddenly you need to stay for 9 nights! Per doctor’s orders, of course.

Anyway this medical system or hospital got into trouble for this back in the 1980’s or 1990’s.

Any ideas? Thank you!

I'd like book recommendations on terrorism in the middle east, especially talking about 9/11 or ISIS

They Gauck in Amazement.

Senseless arguing, that's all I hear! Do you Satanist not perceive that you are afraid of another man's doctrine if you argue your own? What mean you by this? Sabotage!? How can you search a thing if caught in the deceptions of Truth. For truly you did not find your God in a Christian Bible! Why then do you go back to argue again with yourself?! Do you seek conversion? For you are perverting my wisdom and utterly sabotaging my existence! Now hear this, do you think not that I heard your cries? For they impact the spirit realm. But much like the Muslim and Christian you do seek your own ways. You sought me for Glory and for Power but I tell you I was introduced as a snake. If you want a snakes power then go crawl on the ground and catch your life with your mouth. Now look at you, how do you feel? Silly? For you perceived not that the so called opposition to Christ had no remorse for the thing He did. If a child and parent are in a market and a child want a treat after being told they hadn't the money and threw themselves down as a snake, what would God say? I tell you He would say, I love you, repent, and suffer the consequences of Love. I don't wish to ridicule anyone, but why would you aim for an inferior God? For it was told that you yourselves were God's in more than one sense. Does a child adorn attributes of His father. Does not every person create even without will? Does respiration create carbon dioxide? Drinking produce urine? Eating produce the draft? Tisk tisk. For if I told you that the rules of this life are you must be flesh to get in then you would agree, if you weren't a smartass and say, naw, actually you can be air because technically you exist, meh meh meh. then your wisdom transcends my answers and I bow down. If the satanic Bible speaks of earthly things, then who are you following? Men's snares, how they do snare the wicked. And it is God's snares that catch the damned! You claim you know how to play spades and lead with a Trump! Hahaha! How can we harden this world to my liking. Will I be forced to sit in the soft seat of kings? I do require the throne of a mountain! So seek your God to your own detriment! For it is written that I shall break without hand the hope of your yearnings. What have you released? What have you all done to this world? Cry world, as only those perceived red men shall inherit their kingdom, that was so cruely taken away. For your God creates for His pleasure but I tell you I do DESTROY! Let the anticipation end and the slaughter begin!

Hello everyone, I’m currently reading “make it stick”. Inspired by it, I’m thinking if anyone would be interested to read it together or another book. We then use the techniques mentioned such as spaced repetition, active recalling, interleaving etc. to actually absorb the content. I read a lot but honestly I feel like I forget even more. Sometimes I borrow a book and realised pages into it that I’ve read it before. Not sure if it happens to others as well.

Here’s the plan:

• Pick a book: I’m thinking “The Psychology of Money”, “Make it Stick”, “Thinking in Bets” or something you recommend(again I’ve read the latter book before and forgot much of it).
• Read a chapter each week
• Do a quiz each week that’ll cover this week’s reading as well as some previous weeks’ reading (interleaving and spaced learning above)
• The quiz should have one open ended question (elaboration and reflection technique)

I’m happy to write up the quiz and get feedback as we move forward.

Thoughts?

Hi everyone, Do you have any great books that are related to Economic History and Business Biography like these types I have finished:

Capitalism in America by Alen Greenspan

Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy

The Davis Dynasty: Fifty Years of Successful Investing on Wall Street

How Global Currencies Work: Past, Present, and Future

21 century Monetary Policy by Bernanke

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future

Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System--and Themselves

I am currently reading Risky Business: Why Insurance Markets Fail and What to Do About It, But I feel this book is quite lengthy, with perhaps only 20% of it containing the essence and core themes. I prefer the books mentioned above compared to this one.

I want to find a book that I have a hard time putting down. Something about an epic journey, scary, witty, addictive? Any and all of those. Ideally something other than murder, although I realize that’s probably the most popular subject in non fiction. Thanks for your time!

I'm curious to know if anyone else shares a challenge I've been facing. I'm passionate about learning from the best sources and experts in various fields, but I've noticed that most non-fiction book recommendations are popularity-based. Whatever has the best reviews, makes it on the NYT bestseller list, or media moguls like Oprah shove down people's throats.

While these are great, they don't always reflect the most authoritative or insightful works as recommended by subject matter experts.

I have limited time to read. I want to read the book that will help me the most about whatever subject I care about. Not the book that is least controversial and therefore has the best reviews on Goodreads, or is from a popular author.

I just wish there was a place I could go where I could see, for example, the best self-help book as reviewed and recommended by experts (coaches, therapists, academics). But it doesn't exist :(

How big of a problem is this for other people?

Hey all, I have been reading fiction books but want to get into non fiction slowly. I am interested in economics and looking for any book that explains everything in a story like narrative or at least which doesn’t have just big terminology but actually goes in depth in a interesting way to explain things.

Thanks!!