Great advice from Marshall McLuhan:

Marshall McLuhan caused wide irritation with h...

Via Boing Boing: ‘Read only the right-hand page of serious books. “If it’s a frivolous, relaxing book, I read every word. But serious books I read on the right-hand side only because I’ve discovered enormous redundancy in any well-written book, and I find that by reading only the right-hand page this keeps me very wide awake, filling in the other page out of my own noodle.” ‘