Early in this video from Josh he talks about the book pyramid from How to Read a Book, and it's something I forgot about. As I've been thinking about my note-taking and reading I feel like I'm giving far too many books a good look.
Instead, I should be glancing at most of the books that come my way. Take a few notes on them and continue on to the next thing to read. Then there should be a few that I read and take a few notes on.
Only a very few should get to a deeper read where I pull out lots of ideas.
Even less should get more than one read or any type of syntopical reading.
I think that I've been reading every book at the same level as if it's worthy of a bunch of notes and highlights. In fact, I think that this level is where most of the reading/note-taking advice assumes you dwell. You take notes on everything you read and keep detailed records instead of taking a few notes and only on the stuff that really matters.
So, I guess I need to step back in my notes and give fewer books so much time in my schedule.
How about you? Are you merely glancing at some books or are you treating everything as if it's the best thing you could read?