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You could give incremental reading a try.

If you have the books in digital form, you can try to upload them to Polar Bookshelf.

Simply said, incremental reading is when you switch between books / articles when getting bored or losing concentration. The idea is that you regain interest / concentration when moving on to the next.

There's a book (Deep Work by Cal Newport) that makes quite a strong case for studying somewhere dead quiet, without music, especially if you're doing something that is going to be cognitively demanding. Once you start regularly working in a quiet environment, your brain actually starts to perform much more optimally. Basically, the quieter it is around you, the more easily your brain can focus. The easier it can focus, the more it starts to intensify in concentration.

Before you know it, you can complete tasks at a much quicker pace and get a lot more done than say if you're using music to study, or study in a crowded place. So my answer - find someplace quiet to study, wherever that may be. For me, it's the 7th floor of my Uni's library, or early morning (5:00 a.m.) outside on a bench on campus. Basically wherever it's quiet, and wherever you feel peaceful. It's amazing!

So it's called the Porodomo technique, I found an article about it here: https://todoist.com/productivity-methods/pomodoro-technique

The great thing about it is you can scale it to the amount of time you feel that you need to study. I usually got for about 2-3 hours when I'm not studying for a test, maybe closer to 4-6 depending on how much studying I need to do for an exam.

Hi there, welcome to the sub! I went through my entire undergraduate degree without purchasing any textbooks (besides two) primarily due to financial reasons. Here are some resources that helped me locate textbooks!

1. Search them up in your campus library early, way before the semester begins. I'm not sure if this is universal, but my university libraries had a lot of the required textbooks for my GE's and sometimes older edition textbooks for my major (Physics) courses. The smaller college I attended first had a 2hr loan policy (so you can study in the library) whereas the larger university allowed loans for up to 8 weeks (which could later be renewed).
2. Use https://libgen.is/. I'm yet to not find any textbook there, but it might be because my major isn't a rapidly evolving field in terms of fundamentals, so textbooks are not oft updated.
3. Ask your professor if they have an extra copy. I did this for one of my first math classes when I wasn't really aware of other resources, and my professor lend me a copy of the text out of the kindness of his heart.
4. If all else fails, there are textbook rental services out there. I would start with Chegg and Amazon, as they typically have the lowest prices (in my experience).

Hope these help, and good luck!

Procrastination definitely strikes us all so don't feel like you're the only one!
I also really like the Pomodoro technique, especially when I know I just need to start on something.
There's lots of helpful tips you may find useful in this article: https://www.brainscape.com/academy/how-to-study-effectively/

Remember to take things a bite at a time. You can accomplish more than you think and YOU GOT THIS!!!

I LOVE ReadEra! (link for google play on android), i think you can highlight (its caller "quote" here) in reading mode if i'm not mistaken.

Also - 2 dark modes & 2 sepia modes (normal & high contrast); each book has a menu on the side where you can find all your bookmarks and all your highlighted quotes; sorting books into custom categories very easily. As well as just having an aesthetically pleasing UI.

Hope this helps!

A simple advice I can give you is have small goals. Problem with most people is that they set huge standards for themselves, like finishing a paper by the end of the week, or studying for a big test for hours and don't get done. Because they don't know how to write a paper, or study. You need get in a habit being productive, start small. Like if something's on your mind at all, write down, no matter what is. Or, trying to wake up at specific time. Or having a simple checklist with nothing more than 3 items ( nothing too complicated, just like pick up milk, or clean your room ). Then once you get in the habit, you will need to push self to grow.

You need to know what being productive is and study it. A couple of great resources are *collegeinfogeek.com, Getting Things Done By David Allen (Find the Ted talk if the book is too boring), One podcast section by CGPGrey : Hello Internet #39, The Power of Habit, and Google is always your friend. * Remember you are the only one who is keeping your self, not being productive. It is a life change you need to fight for. If you give up, you have no one to blame but your self.

Here are a cheap pair on amazon that people use to block noise while shooting guns.

If it can block that out, im sure it will deafen your ambient noissse.

https://www.amazon.com/ProCase-Ear-Muffs-Construction-Manufacturing/dp/B09FSB4CLJ/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?gclid=Cj0KCQiAoY-PBhCNARIsABcz7707M_Zun456t-CDq-5gHlfODw5Yuyxj28u__a3fS032jT_5KscItvQaAmVcEALw_wcB&hvadid=174233457803&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9...

Flashcards, especially for fact-based info. Use active recall and spaced repetition to maximize retention and minimize revision time.

I swear by Anki (watch tutorials if the user manual is too long), but you can achieve the same effect with physical flashcards/the Leitner system. Alternate software includes SuperMemo and Mnemosyne. r/Anki (as well as r/MedSchoolAnki) are excellent resources as well. Med School Insiders on YouTube has many excellent study tips in general, not just those pertaining to med school.

Basically, what these do is 1. test you on your knowledge (you learn better by testing than rewriting things) and 2. space out the repetition over a period of time. Don't cram, it defeats the purpose of spaced repetition.

Hope this helps.

I think it's definitely worth a try. Maybe start with a couple of pages and see how you get on, you'll know quite quickly if it doesn't work for you. The other thing as another comment suggested is to get an audio version of your book.

If you have the pdf available I know a good free online screen reader that you can upload files to. I use it a lot for my studying.

https://www.naturalreaders.com/online/

There is this Zoom room I used to join before. I'm not sure if it's still working. https://zoom.us/j/3326301263?pwd=ckVWckUwVmNJZTJjczJ4QXc5RUM2Zz09
Meeting ID: 332 630 1263 Password: 236686 It's mostly active from 8am to 5pm Central Time Zone.

There is also jumpinchat which is a website where people stream their cams or share screen, w/o audio

Nice! Personally, I use a modified version of something called the Kanban method, which you can do with Trello, Notion (the app I use), and many other apps.

Here's what mine looks like:

https://www.notion.so/amylane/dd9920d275f24ca5a7a28eb0dc0128f6?v=72f41a209d3d425591e2a1af7b8225f6

At the beginning of the semester, I created a column for each week, then went through the syllabus and added all of the assignments, tests, papers, etc to the appropriate column. Every day, I move what's coming up to the Tomorrow and Today columns. When it's done (but not turned in) it goes to the Completed column, and finally gets deleted when I don't need to be thinking about it anymore.

The advantage of this is that I can get notifications of when things are due so I don't miss them. Plus I can also associate them with notes I take using the same app (though I haven't really gotten around to doing that just yet). Also, everything's actually sorted by the order I'm going to work on it, so I basically just need to pick the next thing off the list whenever I sit down to do homework.

Have you heard of the wreck-it journal? It's a journal specifically designed t be destroyed. Each page asks you to do different things like spill liquids on it, tear it up, scribble on it, etc. I did something similar to this.

I had a notebook from a last year's course that I wasn't going to need anymore - it had perfect notes. Whenever I found myself getting too anal about the notes that I was writing, I'd pause my study and go wreck a page of the old notebook. It calmed me down, somehow.

I have tried both Forest and study bunny. Personally I prefer forest because choose different trees instead of accessories for a bunny. There is a free version of forest.

However, I thought I'd say about an app called Flip. It's a really good app and there is a chance to get premium for free by using coins you get from studying. When you first get the app, an event starts that if you complete, you get premium for 50 days. It also gives you grades based on the quality of your studying E.G how many breaks you take. I'd definitely recommend that you try it out. I don't know though if it's available on ios devices (this is if you have an iPhone, I know it's on android because that's what I have) so you'd have to check the app store. This is a link to it on the Google play store: Flip - Study App

I bought a tabletop podium which helps elevate my laptop when I'm studying

something like this

Hey! I remembered your question whennincane across this app which I think will definitely work for you, (so I kinda had to specifically search for question in the subreddit) this app is "LiveBoard Interactive Whiteboard" Edit: found another one from suggested apps- Explain Everything Whiteboard

I use android, spheres the link for that not iOS https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.inconceptlabs.liveboard

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.explaineverything.explaineverything

Here you can directly submit your assignment requirements & get instant assignment help.

Download MyAssignmentHelp Official APP & check its features. Also, share your feedback.

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Here you can directly submit your assignment requirements & get instant assignment help.

Download MyAssignmentHelp Official APP & check its features. Also, share your feedback.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.myassigmenthelp

Here you can directly submit your assignment requirements & get instant assignment help.

Download MyAssignmentHelp Official APP & check its features. Also, share your feedback.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.myassigmenthelp

Here you can directly submit your assignment requirements & get instant assignment help.

Download MyAssignmentHelp Official APP & check its features. Also, share your feedback.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.myassigmenthelp

A book stand is a must have for people who use books a lot. It's makes a big difference and there is more space on the desk. I have this one.

https://www.amazon.com/-/pt/Reodoeer-BamBoo-Reading-Document-Bookrest/dp/B06XQMVGMJ/ref=sr_1_6?__mk_pt_BR=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&dchild=1&keywords=book+holder&qid=1597926069&sr=8-6

My self-published poetry book about love & self-love :) https://www.amazon.com/Loving-Like-Jane-Riley-Majzun/dp/B089M1HZ64/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=loving+like+jane&qid=1595311368&sr=8-2