Reading ahead in books

[fmos2]

Apologies in advance if this has been answered before.

I was just wondering what are peoples thoughts in reading chronologically vs reading ahead in magic books? I'm interested in knowing because often I find myself gravitating towards learning and using particular sleights, but then I feel that by reading ahead, I may reveal myself to be impatient. For example, in Card College 1, I'd like to think I have a good grasp on the Overhand shuffle and would thus like to build on this by studying advanced overhand shuffle techniques in CC2. But if I adopted the chronological method of study, that would involve me mastering more difficult sleights such as the spread cull and classic force in order to reach that point, which do no interest me at this stage. Thoughts?

 

[WitchDocIsIn]

My general method is to skim anything I'm already familiar with so that I might still get any insights I may not have yet, but not to put a lot of energy on anything I don't plan to study specifically. So while I do read cover-to-cover, I'm essentially skipping the sections that don't interest me.

 

[Maaz Hasan]

Some books are made to be read in Chronological Order. For example, the Royal Road builds on things it teaches, and makes a sort of skill tree with things you've learned previously. However, you can skim through anything that you think you already know, or don't really want to focus on, or just skip over it and come back later.

Other books have chapters independent of each other, where it wont hurt you if you skip a section.

Personally, I think the overhand shuffle is a bad example, but feel free to read through it if you want.

 

[fmos2]

Some books are made to be read in Chronological Order. For example, the Royal Road builds on things it teaches, and makes a sort of skill tree with things you've learned previously. However, you can skim through anything that you think you already know, or don't really want to focus on, or just skip over it and come back later.

Other books have chapters independent of each other, where it wont hurt you if you skip a section.

Personally, I think the overhand shuffle is a bad example, but feel free to read through it if you want.

Thanks for your reply, I agree that Royal Road is more chronological. But with regards to your comment about the overhand shuffle, are you saying its a bad sleight?

 

[Maaz Hasan]

Thanks for your reply, I agree that Royal Road is more chronological. But with regards to your comment about the overhand shuffle, are you saying its a bad sleight?

No no no, of course not.

I'm saying that if the chapter is a continuation of the overhand shuffle from a previous chapter, you might be confused when specific things are mentioned, where as something like a palm would still be easy to understand.