How to Read a Book

HOW TO READ A BOOK by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren provide insights into the problems of learning how to read and offers a comprehensive and better-ordered analysis of the complex art of reading. I also enjoyed the application of the basic rules to different types of reading and the discovery of new rules of reading. Written first by Adler, Van Doren later joined Adler as a co-author in updating, recasting and rewriting the book. It was first published in 1940, went on to be a bestseller, and was translated into other languages such as French, Swedish, German, Spanish and Italian.

There are four parts to the book. […]