How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens

Published 2017 · 51,700 words · about 3 hours at an average pace

How hard is How to Take Smart Notes to read?

How to Take Smart Notes scores 38 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.

Vocabulary: 40 out of 100
Plain, with a few German terms.
Sentence structure: 40 out of 100
Short, practical sentences.
Abstraction: 48 out of 100
A method explained with light theory.
Information density: 48 out of 100
Repetitive by design.

How How to Take Smart Notes is regarded

How to Take Smart Notes holds a literary regard score of 35 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.

About the author

Sönke Ahrens