A classic guide to intelligent reading, offering strategies for critically engaging with books across genres.
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A classic guide to intelligent reading, offering strategies for critically engaging with books across genres.
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[This is the -Revised and Updated- edition] [Read by Edward Holland] How to Read a Book, first published in 1940, is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader. Now it has been completely rewritten and updated. Learn about the various levels of reading and how to achieve them, from elementary reading through systematic skimming and inspectional reading to speed reading. Learn how to pigeonhole a book, X-ray it, extract the author's message, criticize. The ...
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