How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
How to Read a Book, with 500,000 copies in print, is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader, completely rewritten and updated with new material. This book, first published in 1940, is a rare phenomenon, a living classic that introduces and elucidates the various levels of reading and how to achieve them—from elementary reading to systematic skimming and inspectional reading, and finally to speed reading. Readers will learn when and how to "judge a book by its cover," as well as how to examine it critically and extract the author's message from the text.
Instruction in the various techniques that work best for reading specific genres, such as practical books, imaginative literature, plays, poetry, history, science and mathematics, philosophy, and social science works, is also included. Finally, the authors provide a reading list and reading tests that you can use to track your own progress in reading skills, comprehension, and speed.
The important features:
- Discover how to pace your reading for maximum efficiency.
- Covers a wide range of difficulty levels, from basic reading to speed reading.
- Learn how to critically "X-ray" a piece of text to derive meaning from it.
- Includes a variety of techniques suitable for a variety of genres.
Author: Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren
Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/How-Read-Book-Classic-Intelligent/dp/0671212095/
