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Old 07-03-2009, 01:19 PM   #1
vicky_molokh
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Default Re: Learning from books

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.
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Old 07-03-2009, 03:10 PM   #2
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Default Re: Learning from books

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Originally Posted by Molokh View Post
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?
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