An active reading approach can transform your view of the literature from a Sisyphean burden into a rich and varied resource to be mined.

Active reading, as described by Adler and von Dorner is actually quite simple and can be summarised in four steps: 

Although I spend a lot of time reading science, and since shifting from the bench to the desk I have been able to expand my horizons, I still love a popular science book. Over the last few weeks I’ve been reading “She has her mother’s laugh” by Carl Zimmer, which was recommended in the Nature end-of-year reading list in 2018.*