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After recently going through the job application process, and starting as a graduate consultant in a technical company, I can empathise a great deal with your situation. Here are some general tips I use to optimise the time I have to learn new things: Understand the purpose behind why you are required to learn something? If you are going to be doing ...

I often use the costumer reviews from amazon. Not only for books. I read the reviews with one or two stars and the comments of these reviews. If these reviews contain good points which are backed up by arguments I can follow, these reviews give me more hints then the five or four star reviews. Also the comments on these review reveal more pros and cons. ...

My approach is somewhat like this: First, I like to reduce the number of books to look at. If I am at a library (which for me as a student happens a lot) I already have a small selection, so this number is already limited. But suppose you want to buy a book: Then you can try to get recommendations from colleagues or online reviews. Another approach is to ...

I read a lot of books (or at least, bits of books) and so I've learned a lot on how to choose good ones. Recommendations My main guiding principle is to read books that have been recommended to me: either personally or by a professional whose work and opinions I already know and respect. The more recommendations a book receives, the more likely I am to ...

How To Read a Book has an excellent chapter written on just this. You should be able to skim the quality of a book well within an hour, perhaps down to 5-10 minutes with practice. Start with reading the title and summary at the back of the book. It seems obvious, but a lot of people actually don't do this and even fail to read the title properly, misjudging ...

Visiting blogs that has book reviews can be pretty useful. The problem is that not all the books have proper reviews, and it's sometimes hard to find one if any. However, when you can find the blog, sometimes it's really useful. For example, I use Eli Bendersky's blog to check some of my programming books before buying them. Jon Skeet's review on ...