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How do you review multiple large documents quickly?

Steve | Apr 29 2008

Part of my job is to read/review/assimilate long articles, white papers, short manuals, et cetera. I have a GTD context for "Read/Review" and guess what? Things stay there like they're in quicksand. I need a way to "grok" big documents. Anyone got any tips or links? Something step-by-step would be helpful. I'm not talking about simple speed-reading; I'm talking about reading and evaluating but not spending all day on a single tome.

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Quick & Dirty

Submitted by augmentedfourth on April 29, 2008 - 3:00pm.

I've always found Bert Webb's Quick and Dirty Reading Strategy When Time is Short to be a good reference in this kind of situation...

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