Emile comments on Reading habits/techniques/strategies (second post on the topic) - Less Wrong
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M, my usual reflex in situations like that is to pause, look up the terms in question, as well as associated wikipedia pages, and see if I'm missing any basic knowledge; and once I'm more comfortable with those, go back to the more advanced book/article.
This is, of course, more ideal. Sadly, I get most of my books from unrenewable inter-library loans and therefore require an unfortunate focus on speed.
And now that I type this, I realize that nothing stops me from requesting a different edition of it a week or two before my current one is due......