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  • Why The Way We Read Sucks, And How To Fix It: Part 1

    October 29, 2009
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    There’s so much I want to say on this topic. But it would take too long to put it all together, so I’m going to do what we always do here at AJATT — give it to you piecemeal. As with everything on this site, the advice here is just based on my personal experience. I’m not an expert....

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    Why The Way We Read Sucks and How to Fix It: Part 2

    October 31, 2009
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    Why The Way We Read Sucks and How to Fix It: Part 2

    At the risk of stating the obvious, this post continues right where its predecessor left off. I enjoyed the mixed reaction to that previous post…it looks like maybe people who went through some flavour of the British school system have experiences closer to mine. Or, this may all just be a personal problem that I’ve overgeneralized. We’ll just have...

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    Why The Way We Read Sucks and How to Fix It: Part 3 — The Unified Reading Process

    November 14, 2009
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    This is the third post in a continuing series on Why The Way We Read Sucks and How To Fix It. Go here to read the series from the beginning. Please take all this advice cum grano salis. Take it for what it is — one star (don’t say “yeah, a supernova”, really…just don’t) in a galaxy of information...

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    Why The Way We Read Sucks and How to Fix It: Part 4 — Why SRS Personal Development Books?

    November 19, 2009
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    This is the fourth article in an ongoing series. To read this series from the beginning, go here. Now that we’ve talked about the Unified Reading Process (check out the previous article in the series) in general, let’s take a little walk down Specificity Lane. The following advice probably applies to all kinds of books, but I’ve written it...

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    Why The Way We Read Sucks and How To Fix It, Part 5: Examples Shown and Questions Answered

    April 22, 2010
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    This is part 5 of a multipart series that is boldly freaking going where no series has gone before. Go here to read the series from the start. And here to read the previous installment. OK, so after all that talk, let me show you a few examples of the SRS cards I’ve been using with the Unified Reading...

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    The Wait That Kills: Before You Pwn Books, You Must First Own Books

    December 3, 2010
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    The Wait That Kills: Before You Pwn Books, You Must First Own Books

    We are all born illiterate. If you were to wait until you could read to start thumbing through Japanese books, you’d die waiting. If you were to wait until you could  read to start owning Japanese books, you’d die waiting. False: can’t read Japanese ∴ own no Japanese books. True: own no Japanese books ∴ can’t read Japanese. See these...

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