Your alternatives—reading the text, reading someone else's notes, or both—cannot substitute for the class experience of hearing ideas in person as someone presents them to you.
" Crow's Eye, " Asha called, " did you leave your wits at Asshai? If we cannot hold the north—and we cannot—how can we win the whole of the Seven Kingdoms" ?
Maybe four or five deal with that period because I cannot—I know that there are no words for it, so all I can try to do is to communicate the incommunicability of the event.