How to Read a Book

How to Reada Book- Softcover

Author: MortimerJ. Adler

Publisher: Simon& Schuster

ISBN: 9780671212094

Year: 1972

Weight:0.380 kg

Pages: 426pp

Price: RM83

With half a million copies in print, How to Read a Book isthe best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the generalreader, completely rewritten and updated with new material. Originallypublished in 1940, this book is a rare phenomenon, a living classic thatintroduces and elucidates the various levels of reading and how to achievethem-from elementary reading, through systematic skimming and inspectionalreading, to speed reading. Readers will learn when and how to "judge abook by its cover," and also how to X-ray it, read critically, and extractthe author's message from the text. Also included is instruction in thedifferent techniques that work best for reading particular genres, such aspractical books, imaginative literature, plays, poetry, history, science andmathematics, philosophy and social science works. Finally, the authors offer arecommended reading list and supply reading tests you can use measure your ownprogress in reading skills, comprehension, and speed.