How to Read a Book

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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 the text.

Also included is instruction in the different techniques that work best for reading particular genres, such as practical books, imaginative literature, plays, poetry, history, science and mathematics, philosophy and social science works. Finally, the authors offer a recommended reading list and supply reading tests you can use measure your own progress in reading skills, comprehension, and speed.

How to Read a Book is the perfect supplement to the Memoria Press Logic & Rhetoric programs. Logic is the original thinking skill. Traditional Logic and Material Logic have brought back many of the lost tools of teaching this essential subject so that your child can learn it in a simple step-by-step way. Rhetoric too, the lost art of persuasion, is now available for your student in an easy-to-use format with Classical Rhetoric so that they can learn how to argue and persuade.

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