The speaker shares a unique approach to reading books as a writer, wherein they create an alternate index on the last page of analog books. This index lists out recurring topics and ideas, along with the respective page numbers and highlighted passages. By doing so, the speaker creates an index based on key ideas rather than keywords, which helps in synthesizing the important concepts for future writing. The speaker also expresses excitement about implementing the same technique with analog books, allowing for flexibility in listing the key ideas in any order.

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