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Long renowned as "the classic guide to intelligent reading", a book which ought to be mandatory reading for every high school student. Adler explains the lost art of reading actively and how to take accurate and comprehensive notes. This volume will be of great assistance to anyone who implements its principles, for getting the most out of any of their reading.
"These four hundred pages are packed full of high matters which no one solicitous of the future of American culture can afford to overlook."
- Jacques Barzun
How to Read a Book, originally published in 1940, has become a rare phenomenon, a living classic. It is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader. And now it has been completely rewritten and updated.
You are told about the various levels of reading and how to achieve them--from elementary reading, through systematic skimming and inspectional reading, to speed reading. You learn how to pigeonhole a book, X-ray it, extract the author's message, criticize. You are taught the different reading techniques for reading practical books, imaginative literature, plays, poetry, history, science, and mathematics, philosophy, and social science.
Finally, the author offers a recommended reading list and supply reading tests whereby you can measure your own progress in reading skills, comprehension and speed.
"It shows concretely how the serious work of proper reading may be accomplished and how much it may yield in the way of instruction and delight."
