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How to Read a Book (Adler)
Mortimer Adler's classic guide to active reading: the four levels (elementary, inspectional, analytical, syntopical), the four questions every reader must answer, and a practical system for getting the most from the Books canon in this Academy.
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Key idea
Prereqs: How to study; Notes & second brain. Next: Speed vs depth reading. Read: Mortimer Adler & Charles Van Doren, *How to Read a Book* (1940; revised 1972).Next: 1. Four levels