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Loading... How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (A Touchstone book) (original 1940; edition 1972)by Mortimer J. Adler (Author)
Work InformationHow to Read a Book {original} by Mortimer J. Adler (Author) (1940)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. reading and accessing information This is the most overrated book I've read in a while. People rate it a "5/5", it's really a 2-3/5. It might be worthwhile if you don't know how to "read" well (as in, asking questions while reading, analyzing the book, comparing the viewpoints of multiple books), but if you're a reasonable human being, you already know this, and don't require hundreds of pages of needlessly verbose and condescending prose to explain it. The authors get extra points for creating arbitrary and essentially worthless distinctions of multiple times, then indexing each of these on independent 4-part scales. This lets them say amazing things about reading the fourth type of book at the third level leads to the fourth point, etc. Skip. There should be a worthwhile book about this topic, but this isn't it. no reviews | add a review
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How to Read a Book, first published in 1940, is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader—a living classic. Now it has been completely rewritten and updated.This book will teach you about the various levels of reading and how to achieve them, from elementary reading and systematic skimming to inspectional reading and speed reading. Learn how to pigeonhole a book, x-ray it, extract the author's message, and criticize. The authors offer different reading techniques for various types of books, and finally, a recommended reading list and reading tests for measuring your own progress in reading skills, comprehension, and speed. No library descriptions found. |
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