Deep Reader

Read long books and papers the way a careful human researcher does: skim for structure first, read deeply chapter by chapter with notes as you go, then synthesize from the notes — never the raw text — at the end. The method comes from Adler's How to Read a Book, SQ3R's Recite step, and Keshav's three-pass method for papers.

Why multi-pass, why notes

An LLM's attention dilutes over long contexts, and it loses track of material buried in the middle of a big prompt ("lost in the middle"). Loading a 500-page book into one context and asking questions about it produces answers that quietly forget chapter 3 by the time you're discussing chapter 12.