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With half a million copies in print, How to Read a Book is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader, completely rewritten and updated with new material. A CNN Book of the Week: “Explains not just why we should read books, but how we should read them.
- Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren
The best summary of Mortimer Adler's classic: How to Read a Book. Learn the difference between reading to entertain and reading to learn and take your retention and understanding to the next level.
Oct 25, 2022 · 1. Make an overall reading goal. Download Article. Establish a comprehension goal before closely reading the text. Think about why you need to understand the material in front of you—what is the end goal of reading?
Oct 3, 2018 · If you’ve ever wondered how to read a book, you’ll want to read this simple guide. Don’t get lost in the ether. Step One: Pick a book. This is deceptively difficult.
Adler breaks reading into four levels with concrete strategies for each: inspectional reading to evaluate books quickly, analytical reading to grasp core arguments, and syntopical reading of multiple books for deep understanding.
the complex art of reading; the flexible application of the basic rules to different types of reading, in fact to every variety of reading matter; the discovery and formulation of new rules of reading; and the conception of a pyramid of books to read, broad at the bottom and tapering at the top—all these things, not
Oct 26, 2022 · You don’t need to buy one: Pluck a book from your shelves at home, borrow from a friend, download a book to your phone from participating libraries or simply swing by a Little Free Library on...
