How to Read a Book
By: Mortimer J. Adler & Charles Van Doren
© 1940, 1972
The excerpts from this book contain emphasis. Italics and CAPS are the Authors’
Bold is mine to call out what I believe to be important points
Underline is mine to identify supportive material that is not necessary to the primary point, but useful in further understanding them
Contents
Preface
PART ONE – The Dimensions of Reading
- The Activity and Art of Reading
- The Levels of Reading
- The First Level of Reading: Elementary Reading
- The Second Level of Reading: Inspectional Reading
- How to be a Demanding Reader
PART TWO – The Third Level of Reading: Analytical Reading
- Pigeonholing a Book
- X-Raying a Book
- Coming to Terms with an Author
- Determining an Author’s Message
- Criticizing a Book Fairly
- Agreeing or Disagreeing with an Author
- Aids to Reading
PART THREE – Approaches to Different Kinds of Reading Matter
- How to Read Practical Books
- How to Read Imaginative Literature
- Suggestions for Reading Stories, Plays, and Poems
- How to Read History
- How to Read Science and Mathematics
- How to Read Philosophy
- How to Read Social Science
PART FOUR – The Ultimate Goals of Reading
- The Fourth Level of Reading: Syntopical Reading
- Reading and the Growth of the Mind
APPENDIX A – A Recommended Reading List
APPENDIX B – Exercises and Tests at the Four Levels of Reading
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