TWO MORE VERY IMPORTANT THINGS

1) Read with a pencil in your hand. You can use it to keep your eyes going along the lines, tap your chin thoughtfully as you gaze off into the middle distance and reflect, and even, oddly enough, make notes in your book (a little harder in the online version, but this is one more reason to buy the set). I'm fairly restrained in my note-making but I do mark my books: ticks in the margin for valuable loci to which to return, references to other pages or volumes/authors ("cf. pg. 274"), moderate underlining of striking passages, etc.

2) Also, read aloud, or at least move your lips. For the love of Christ, don't speedread. That's gnosticism. At least it would be here. Read at a natural, human, incarnational, attached-to-this-world speed. Hear the words. Taste the words. You don't speed-eat, right? :) And this is even more important. If these words are valuable, and oh, they are! then feed on them. There's no deadline for wisdom.