The author’s websites
https://americanbusinesshistory.org/
https://hooversworld.com/

I am interested in this book because of AOM podcast of Aug 18, 2021 “What a Man With 60,000 Books Can Teach You About Lifelong Learning and Building Your Home Library”

This book wasn’t exactly what I thought it was going to be about, but there was still some good useful tips. The author has over 57,000 books in his home library. He is the creator of a successful superstore, called BOOKSTOP. He studied and combined trends from other businesses, and in this book he gives you tips along the way on how to get your thinking cap on and step out of the rut of thinking like everyone else. If you own your own business, you will probably find some of these tips and ideas very helpful in opening up your creative mind to new ideas.

Otherwise, he starts off by explaining how to briefly look over a book from cover to cover within 25-30 minutes and getting everything you need from it without reading the entire book. Browse the...insider cover, editing page, the table of contents page, bibliography, index, biography page (back cover), illustrations and photographs, and to read first few and last pages of book...much like we were taught in choosing books in high school when writing our research papers. This might be good IF I am researching, but this isn’t in my personality not to read an entire book. This process for every book would drive me crazy. And, anyway, I bet he will absolutely appreciate the fact that I did read HIS entire book! ( )

This book is what it says it is. It is about--- Reading with the Intent of Learning. As such it provides a methodology to get the most out of works of non-fiction and it recommends basic texts to launch the reader into a number of serious topics. The other object of the book is to encourage the reader to think differently about how to approach a body of literature on a particular topic. ( )