Learning from books

[vicky_molokh]

If we're going into fiddly details, here's how I'd do it:

A book or set of books is rated for:

• The prerequisites to actually understanding the book (usually a Language, and possibly some secondary skills).
• The minimum number of CPs in the skills in question required before the person can actually get any insight from the book.
• The maximum number of CPs that can be gained through self-teaching from this book.
• The maximum number of CPs that can be gained for the purposes of Super-Memorization from this book (usually same as above).
• The number of CPs in the skill which signifies the point where the book will be nothing new to the student.

[sgtcallistan]

Originally Posted by Molokh

If we're going into fiddly details, here's how I'd do it:

A book or set of books is rated for:

• The prerequisites to actually understanding the book (usually a Language, and possibly some secondary skills).
• The minimum number of CPs in the skills in question required before the person can actually get any insight from the book.
• The maximum number of CPs that can be gained through self-teaching from this book.
• The maximum number of CPs that can be gained for the purposes of Super-Memorization from this book (usually same as above).

Molokh has stated the needs: ability to read the book, ability to understand the book (a problem if it assumes much pre-knowledge), wether it contains anything useful to the reader.

'The Art of War' by Sun Tzu in French translation may have been useful to Napoleon as a student; but did it take a Napoleon to make use of it?