The summaries in Passing Time in the Loo, Vols 1, 2, Vol 3, plus Passing Time in the Loo Shakespeare, provide an invaluable introduction to the classics – plus many timeless quotations and useful facts. Between them the volumes contain more than 300 summaries of well-known books – the books you wish you’d read but never had time to read.
ACCORDING TO RESEARCH, PEOPLE WHO READ SUMMARIES REMEMBER MORE FOR LONGER.
Summaries are a valid way to get overviews and details.
Read more about the value of summaries – and speed reading
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Passing Time in the Loo, Book Summaries, Vol 1
Passing Time in Loo, Book Summaries, Vol 2
Passing Time in Loo, Book Summaries, Vol 3
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Why read summaries?
Summaries are one of the best ways of gaining knowledge – reading summaries is often more beneficial than reading the original book.
Summaries …
• save time – in the time it takes to read one full book, you can read several summary versions
• give access to books you wouldn’t otherwise read (those books you’d like to have read, without actually wanting to read them)
• give the overview of a subject which is what your brain needs in order to learn
• are the quickest way to become educated
• help you remember: research shows that people remember more after reading a summary than after reading the book (makes sense – there’s less to remember) Read more on the research on summaries
• give you the essence – someone else has done the hard work of synthesising the information (which you would have to do with the original book)
• give access to difficult information – or badly written, badly presented information
• provide knowledge in bite-sized chunks
• are ideal for reading in queues, on trains etc, when it can be challenging to concentrate on reading in depth
• act as ‘trailers’ for the original books if you decide you want to read them later
• serve as reminders for books you’ve ‘read’ but forgotten
• master speed reading – Download a FREE summary of 37 speed reading techniques ‘Spd Rdng – The Speed Reading Bible’
Here are some relevant references:
- Bretzing, B. H., & Kulhavy, R. W. (1979). Notetaking and depth of processing. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 4(2), 145-153.
- This study found that students who read summaries performed better on comprehension tests than those who read the full text.
- Reder, L. M., & Anderson, J. R. (1980). A comparison of texts and their summaries: Memorial consequences. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 19(2), 121-134.
- The results showed that participants who read summaries recalled more important information than those who read the full texts after one week.
- Sanchez, R. P., Lorch, E. P., & Lorch, R. F. (2001). Effects of headings on text processing strategies. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 26(3), 418-428.
- This study found that participants who read texts with summaries (in the form of headings) performed better on comprehension tests than those who read the full texts without headings.
- Hartley, J., & Trueman, M. (1983). The effects of summaries on the recall of information from prose materials. Human Learning, 2(1), 63-82.
- The results showed that participants who read summaries before and after the full text recalled more information than those who only read the full text.
- Bransford, J. D., & Johnson, M. K. (1972). Contextual prerequisites for understanding: Some investigations of comprehension and recall. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 11(6), 717-726.
- This study found that participants who received summaries before reading the full text had better comprehension and recall than those who did not receive summaries.
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