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	How to Read a Book - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		How to Read a Book was originally authored by Mortimer Adler.
		He claims that any book that does not represent original communication is an inferior source to the original, and, further, that any teacher, save those who discovered the thing which they are teaching, is inferior to these books as a source of understanding.
		He concludes the book with a chapter expounding on his belief in the importance of reading and learning in the functioning of a democratic government and in the lives of "free men".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/How_to_Read_a_Book (868 words)

	How to Read a Book - Ayn Rand Admirers at The Atlasphere
		How to Read a Book - Ayn Rand Admirers at The Atlasphere
		Not much time in the book is spent on this level of reading, except to point out the sad fact that it cannot be taken for granted, as the number of remedial reading courses for college freshmen indicate.
		How to Read a Book is indispensable to the autodidact, not only because it encourages stretching one’s reading skills, but because it encourages thinking.
	www.theatlasphere.com /columns/060120-evans-read-a-book.php (1241 words)

	ADLER ARCHIVE: How to Read a Book Superficially
		A few more experiences like this with the great books, and he becomes convinced that reading them is a fruitless pursuit and that they have acquired their lofty reputation through snobbery, stupidity or skullduggery.
		If we have read and remember a certain situation, event or interchange, there is no need to read it again, often in the very same words, a second and a third time.
		Reading is, after all, an active and selective process, the analog of writing, not a merely passive echoing of the writer's words.
	radicalacademy.com /adlersuperficially1.htm (2014 words)

	Book Club How-To
		Reading for a book discussion - whether you are the leader or simply a participant - differs from reading purely for pleasure.
		Of course, every reader responds to a book in ways that are intimately tied to his or her background, upbringing, experiences, and view of the world.
		The Washington Center for the Book is one of eight member organizations of the Audiences for Literature Network, a national network of literary centers made possible by the Fund.
	www.ci.pasadena.ca.us /LIBRARY/1bookprinthowto2003.htm (1223 words)

	Edwards - How to Read a Book
		If you don't read a novel this way, it's not very satisfying, since a basic principle of fiction is to hold the reader in suspense.
		In fact, your whole purpose in reading fiction is to follow the writer's lead, allowing him or her to spin a story bit by bit.
		But many of the books you'll read during your college career -- and possibly in the rest of your life -- probably won't be novels.
	www-personal.si.umich.edu /~rfrost/courses/reading.html (1451 words)

	Amazon.com: How to Read a Book: Books: Mortimer J. Adler,Charles Lincoln Van Doren (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		How to Read a Book (A Touchstone Book) by Mortimer J. Adler
		How to Read a Book is a classic guide to intelligent reading and my opinion is that it should be standard reading, particularly for the college-bound student.
		The idea is to read a number of books on a given subject, as objectively as possible, and withhold judgment and criticism of all the books until you understand the different perspectives.
	www.amazon.com /How-Read-Book-Mortimer-Adler/dp/1567310109 (3170 words)

	How to Read a Book
		Acknowledgments in academic books often talk about where the author was trained, and sometimes make a point of distinguishing between the ideas of the authors and those of the professors who taught them.
		That sense of being lost in a book is very common, but unfortunately what most of us tend to do is shut the book, of just go on and ignore it when we feel that way.
		Read the last chapter, conclusion, or afterword as carefully as you did the introduction, even if you already did it when you were mapping out your approach to the book.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /courses/knorton/ws290/strasser.html (1404 words)

	How to Read a Book
		After all, what goes into writing a book - be that a novel, a philosophical treatise, a collection of poems, a biography or a thriller - is, ultimately, a man's only life: good or bad, but always finite.
		YET since we are all moribund and since reading books is time-consuming, we must devise a system that allows us a semblance of economy.
		The more one reads poetry, the less tolerant one becomes of any sort of verbosity, be that in political or philosophical discourse, be that in history, social studies or the art of fiction.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/00/09/17/specials/brodsky-how.html (2069 words)

	Reading: How to Read a Book and Why -- Critical Thinking Literature Response Analysis Literary Criticism
		Bloom shares his insights into some of the greatest books ever written and tries to convince us that our own insights into books like these are well worth the effort we must expend to discover them.
		We might think of this as the “normal” way of reading where we try to figure out what a piece of writing means by understanding the words a writer uses.
		When we read from the perspective of a writer, we focus less on what the writer is saying and more on how the writer is saying it.
	www.ttms.org /say_about_a_book/how_to_read_a_book.htm (702 words)

	Amazon.ca: How to Read a Book: Books: Mortimer J. Adler,Charles van Doren (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It shows concretely how the serious work of proper reading may be accomplished and how much it may yield in the way of instruction and delight.
		You are told about the various levels of reading and how to achieve them -- from elementary reading, through systematic skimming and inspectional reading, to speed reading, you learn how to pigeonhole a book, X-ray it, extract the author's message, criticize.
		If you've never read it, and you have a vague sense that your education is somehow incomplete and you'd like to remedy that, this is your book.
	www.amazon.ca /How-Read-Book-Mortimer-Adler/dp/0671212095 (1431 words)

	ADLER ARCHIVE: How to Read a Difficult Book
		Read the book through undeterred by the paragraphs, footnotes, arguments, and references that escape you.
		This is the most practical method I know to break the crust of a book, to get the feel and general sense of it, and to come to terms with its structure as quickly and as easily as possible.
		What you understand by reading a book through to the end -- even if it is only fifty per cent or less will help you later in making the additional effort to go back to places you passed by on your first reading.
	radicalacademy.com /adlerreaddifbk.htm (800 words)

	FAQs ABOUT HOW TO READ A BOOK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It can be quite a problem to arrive at University, and discover that you are suddenly expected to have the skills required for reading a book, which academics tend to take for granted.
		read the book using both hands (but this makes it difficult to take notes at the same time, and you will have to keep on laying the book down on its face, so as to avoid losing your place);
		When reading a book, I often find that such sentences are split between the bottom of one page and the top of the next.
	www.philosophy.leeds.ac.uk /GMR/bookfaqs.html (1381 words)

	How To read a Book - Reader's Paradise Forum - GardenWeb
		In general, though, my reading time is made up of stolen moments here and there, and it often takes me a while to get through a book so reading word for word is more helpful to me than trying to speed read.
		While reading "How to Read a Book" for this program (years after graduating from college), I realized that Adler was repeating, very academically, all that I had learned in college.
		We were taught that what makes reading a slow task for most people is the fact that they are pronouncing each individual word in their heads as they read each line.
	glyphs.gardenweb.com /forums/load/paradise/msg120008429377.html (2862 words)

	How to Read a Book handout--James H. Williams
		You can see how the book is categorized by subject, by author, and by title, and you may also find out when the author was born (and died).
		The author should then tell you how he or she will answer the questions or address the issues to which the book is devoted.
		Your reading and analysis of the introductory matter of the book should give you a clear sense of what the author will try to accomplish in the body of the book.
	www.mtsu.edu /~jhwillia/howto.html (2017 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: How to Read a Book (A Touchstone Book): Books: Mortimer J. Adler,Charles Van Doren (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This is a book for graduate students who need the best 'how to' techniques to help them get the most out of their reading.
		This is a book for anyone who believes that reading a book is a small life-changing exercise.
		How to Read a Book has given me a sound approach and blueprint to follow as I read these technical documents.
	www.amazon.co.uk /How-Read-Book-Touchstone/dp/0671212095 (1726 words)

	GLASER 98: How to read a Book in 45 minutes and present it in 5 minutes (Memo #6)
		Inspect all of the books on the tentative bibliography to ascertain which are germane to your subject.
		What will typically cause me to discontinue reading a paper is if I find the author(s) are out in right field due to their apparent lack of true business experience in the area he/she/they are discussing.
		Just read abstract to have idea what the paper is about, the look at the conceptual model to have a general ideas and also a quick look on references.
	gtm.vlsm.org /gnm-gtm6.en.html (2052 words)

	How To Read A Book
		This is a practical book, filled with solid, step-by-step instructions to help you read quickly, actively, and effectively.
		The latter sections of the book contain instructions on applying Adler’s process to specific types of reading — non-fiction, imaginative literature, stories and plays, history, science and mathematics, philosophy, and social science.
		The book could easily serve as the text for a semester-long course in effective reading at the high school or undergrad levels.
	www.terryfrazier.com /reviews/books/howtoread.html (674 words)

	How to Read a Book
		That would mean you should try to read at least 31 - 32 pages per week, a mere 5 or so pages per day (giving you one extra day should you fall behind).
		You may prefer to schedule one time per week to read the entire week's scheduled portion or you may want to break the reading down even further to more manageable (smaller) sections and read a bit each day.
		However, if you are borrowing this book and will not have it available in the future, you might want to write a more complete outline as you read through each section.
	www.nv.cc.va.us /home/lshulman/reading.htm (578 words)

	Eastbook: How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren
		Eastbook: How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren
		This book tells how to read a book so that you can understand and remember both the idea and the structure of the argument, as if they were your own.
		The art of reading is the process whereby a mind with nothing to operate upon but the printed matter, elevates itself from understanding less to understanding more.
	www.eastbook.com /HowToReadABook.html (1585 words)

	Week 1: How to Read a Book
		Reading can be either an active or a passive exercise.
		Active reading also entails thinking of new examples to illustrate the author’s points and trying to extend the author’s argument to new situations.
		In contrast, the passive reader does not anticipate or react to the argument and does not notice how much of the argument has been absorbed until after she or he has finished reading.
	www.rci.rutgers.edu /~vbashi/HowtoReadaBook.htm (366 words)

	Summary of Virginia Woolf's "How to Read a Book" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		For, if you begin a book that's thesis is one that you disagree with, you'll read with a critical eye, and perhaps miss the information presented, gaining nothing.
		She believed that you must set out to believe the information in the book, and try to appreciate the way the text is presented as if you were the co-author of the story.
		To read a book that you've already decided you "shouldn't" like, or that you dissagree with, ruins the reading of the book.
	www.msu.edu /~kolbabig/kolbabig01.htm (502 words)

	How To Read A Book
		For example, reading a non-Buddhist book about dying entitled FINAL GIFTS, I learned a lot about death from people who have witnessed it first-hand; yes, from hospice-nurses who with great compassion tended to the dying, and who related for our benefit their experiences with dying people.
		I learned a lot about compassion from that book, how, by just being present, by giving a gentle squeeze to a hand, by tenderly stroking a forehead, by saying a soothing and comforting word, one can bring relief to a dying person.
		When I read the Dalai Lama, I see that here is a very compassionate and wise person, and a very humble one, too.
	members.tripod.com /anatta0/btm01-how_to_read_a_book.htm (1855 words)

	How to Read a Book
		Whenever you read a novel, you should always begin your analysis of that novel with your reaction to it.
		You must advance from saying what you like or dislike about the book to what is good or bad about the book and why (213-14).
		What is valued or not valued at first reading may become more or less valued upon further reading and more thoughtful consideration.
	www.nvcc.edu /home/ataormina/novels/approaches/howto.htm (560 words)

	How to Read a Book
		How to Read a Book Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren Three kinds of reading:
		Bad books are harder to read, because the reader has to do the organizing work the author should have done.
		it is you and your concerns that are to be served, not the book's.
	www.cs.umass.edu /~mdmattin/hypertext/adler.html (1376 words)

	Relevant History: How to read a book
		My first book, Empire and the Sun: Victorian Solar Eclipse Expeditions, was published by Stanford University Press in 2002; I'm now working on a book on the end of cyberspace.
		Serious reading is a martial art, and there's usually an inverse relationship between how closely I've read a book, and how readable my copy is.
		I was surprised and thrilled to see that Alex Pang of Relevant History (a new and much loved blog discovery for me) put this picture in a post he called How to read a book.
	askpang.typepad.com /relevant_history/2005/09/how_to_read_a_b.html (339 words)

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		You are told about the various levels of reading and how to achieve them — from elementary reading, through systematic skimming and inspectional reading, to speed reading, you learn how to pigeonhole a book, X-ray it, extract the author's message, criticize.
		The Syntopicon and How to Use It On the Principles That Underlie Syntopical Reading
	www.powells.com /biblio/7-0671212095-4 (297 words)

	Amazon.com: How to Read a Book (A Touchstone Book): Books: Mortimer J. Adler,Charles Van Doren (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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	How to read a book
		4) How does this fit in with your experience?
		5) How does this fit in with other authors?
		Analyze and synthesize: find main points and interrelations
	www.usfca.edu /GOODNEWS/readbook.html (26 words)

	Simon & Schuster: How to Read a Book (Trade Paperback)
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