# Six Kinds of Reading **Covers**:: **Source**:: [Six Kinds of Reading](https://everythingstudies.com/2018/03/12/six-kinds-of-reading/) **Creator**:: [[everythingstudies.com]] # Highlights ##### ^305784497 ###### ^305784497q Any book, article or text communicates one or a closely related set of ideas, and as you read more and more your internal knowledge base will begin to resemble such partly overlapping pieces holding each other in place, like papier-maché ^305784497 ##### ^305789833 Likely the best way to achieve this is on a platform with shortform introductory content that can then funnel you to high quality longform content. This already exists in a unofficial way on Youtube and Tiktok, but no platform would commit to it (as it is taking people away from their site). Readwise could do this through their supplemental highlights feature. ###### ^305789833q It goes without saying that looking for incepting (or just highly extending) material is a high-risk strategy. It’ll be topics you’re not already interested in so you won’t know if you could be, and you won’t know how to separate the wheat from the chaff either. ... A recommendation engine for reading that could reliably supply enjoyable inceptive experiences would be a marvel. ^305789833 ##### ^305784500 ###### ^305784500q What corresponds to making connections but with very high overlap? It would be something light on new information per se, but heavy on models and abstraction. It would make you see things in a new way by giving you new mental tools and schemas. ^305784500