Some books are a pleasure to read. All I want is to sink into the couch and spend some quality time with them, reading and re-reading, savouring every

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Some books are a pleasure to read. All I want is to sink into the couch and spend some quality time with them, reading and re-reading, savouring every word. Most books, especially contemporary non-fiction books, are not pleasurable at all. Many of them, even while being useful as vessels for information, are awful. I read them to expose my mind to new information and try to retain some of it in the hope that it will help me know stuff and think interesting things.

Over the years I have tried different approaches to working through such books, but AI has completely transformed how I read and learn. This is my current (Autumn 2024) recipe - Hyper-Reading:

Explaining how to do this is beyond the scope of this document. Suffice to say that there are no strictly technical limitations to achieving this.

NotebookLM does not read EPUB files. If I don’t have a PDF I might use a tool like Pandoc to convert the EPUB into a format that NotebookLM accepts, like an HTML file or a Google Doc.

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