How to Read a Book

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Introduction

Seminal work for anyone who wants to learn how to read - [1]

Also useful is the authors insights on How to Mark a Book - [2]

Content

“Think of these levels as reading to entertain, reading to inform, reading to understand, and reading to master. When you learned to read in elementary school, you were taught to read for entertainment. If you made it to high school and college, you learned to read to inform. This is where most people stop. But most of the value comes at the last two levels.” — A summary of Mortimer Adlers’ Classic How to Read a Book

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