About the Book: How To Read A Book
With half a million copies in print, "How to Read a Book" is the best and most
successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader, completely
rewritten and updated with new material. Originally published in 1940, this book
is a rare phenomenon, a"living" classic that introduces and elucidates the
various levels of reading and how to achieve them from elementary reading,
through systematic skimming and inspectional reading, to speed reading. Readers
will learn when and how to judge a book by its cover, and also how to X-ray it,
read critically, and extract the author s message from