Look up a summary online. Usually, someone has already condensed the crucial ideas into a streamlined summary. I do this for skill/self-improvement books. Some search-bar examples would be "How to Win Friends and Influence People summary" and "Never Split the Difference summary". You could read the book once without taking notes to get a good understanding of the ideas within, and for the experience, but then look at the online summaries to study. If you want to really remember these ideas, get a journal, and copy the ideas from the summary. Over and over, until you have it memorized well. Then, apply the ideas in your life. Good luck!
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Reply to How do you read non fiction books? by Retep_Rup
Look up a summary online. Usually, someone has already condensed the crucial ideas into a streamlined summary. I do this for skill/self-improvement books. Some search-bar examples would be "How to Win Friends and Influence People summary" and "Never Split the Difference summary". You could read the book once without taking notes to get a good understanding of the ideas within, and for the experience, but then look at the online summaries to study. If you want to really remember these ideas, get a journal, and copy the ideas from the summary. Over and over, until you have it memorized well. Then, apply the ideas in your life. Good luck!