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How to Read a Book

Paperback • 1972 • English

How to Read a Book

By Mortimer J. Adler

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About the 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 "judg...Show more

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ISBN

9780671212094

Publisher

Touchstone

Published year

1972

Language

English

Original title

How to Read a Book

Format

Paperback

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