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Read the Table of Contents, then skim the Index, then look at the Bibliography and tag what look to be the personally potentially interesting bits - then read the whole thing.

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More of a 1% to 100% guy myself.

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Q: “Why does your book have ten chapters?”

A: “That is how long it took me to tell the story I wanted to tell. Anything longer or shorter and the story would not have been the same.”

(An alternative answer would be: “I had a deadline and if I had had more time I would written a shorter story.”)

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Depending on the book I definitely think that most nonfiction can be read in ways other than cover to cover. A Pareto optimum is probably in the ball park.

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