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Hi all,
Just a quick question, when you guys read a book to enhance your knowledge, do you read the whole book from start to finish or pick and choose what you wanna read? Or any techniques you guys use to get the most out of your reading?
Cheers
Just a quick question, when you guys read a book to enhance your knowledge, do you read the whole book from start to finish or pick and choose what you wanna read? Or any techniques you guys use to get the most out of your reading?
Cheers





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I've never tried to look for structural engineering related articles in Google Scholar, but I'd imagine it's similar to what I might find for, say, compressive sensing, which had about 200k hits in Google Scholar, but admittedly, most of the hits will probably require paying, or are not quite related to the specific thing I'm looking for.
Finally, books are rarely available for free, but there are plenty of articles available through Google Scholar, or through individual authors' personal websites. I've got a membership with IEEE, though, which covers thousands of articles and gets me some level of access to articles that require payment.
I do, however, have quite a few textbooks, some of which are holdovers from when I owned a big chunk of physical books, but I now tend to look for electronic books, if for nothing else, a quantum reduction in volume consumed. Costco sells a 2 TB notebook portable drive, which can hold millions of books, if need be.
There's some sort of "comfort food" feel to have physical books, though, the smell, the feel, etc. But, that's just probably because I grew up with physical books.
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David Simpson, PE
MuleShoe Engineering
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. —Galileo Galilei, Italian Physicist
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I find I have physical books. The books I refer to most have post-it note tabs, and penciled-in comments, and sometimes corrections, in the margins.
A few books have proven to have an author with wit and a sense of humor that make them readable, like Hot Air Rises and Heat Sinks - Everything you know about cooling electronics is wrong by Tony Kordyban which is a technical book structured like a workplace biography. This book has proven so popular that it has a sequel and is available in paperback and electronically.
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I bought these books in my days of bookshop browsing, where you went to a shop with money and a desire to spend it and left with a book.
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I find myself wanting to read books from cover to cover in case I miss something however I never get to finish them as I get sick of them, some earlier than others. Will start looking through and browsing for chapters which seem most insightful.
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If it is a technical "thing" I'm trying to look up, AND I know I have in some specific technical reference that I have on the shelf, then I use the index and only read that specific page or table. If I'm not sure I have the specific info, or I'm not at home (which is half the time anyway), then I look the topic up on-line and use a specific credible web page. Flexitallic gasket torque values for example: I'd use only the Flexitallic web page itself. Never somebody else.
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