How to Read a Book

With more than half a million copies in print, How to Read a Book is one of the bestselling books of all time. This best-selling book, with new material, is a guide to reading comprehension for the general reader. It explains how readers can achieve the different levels of reading and how to read with comprehension, so they can get what they want from a book. Readers will learn when and how to “judge a book by its cover,” as well as how to X-ray it, read critically, and extract the author’s message from the text.