How to Read a Book

Chapter s

• 1 The Activity and Art of Reading
• 2 The Levels of Reading
• 3 The First Level of Reading: Elementary Reading
• 4 The Second Level of Reading: Inspectional Reading
• 5 How to Be a Demanding Reader
• 6 Pigeonholing a book
• 7 x-raying a Book
• 8 Coming to Terms wiith an Author
• 9 Determining an Author's Message
• 10 Criticizing a Book Fairly
• 11 Agreeing or Disagreeing with an Author
• 12 Aids to Reading
• 13 How to Read Practical Books
• 14 How to Read Imaginative Literature
• 15 Suggestions for Reading Stories, Plays, and Poems
• 16 How to Read History
• 17 How to Read Science and Mathematics
• 18 How to Read Philosophy
• 19 How to Read Social Science
• 20 The Fourth Level of Reading: Syntopical Reading
• 21 Reading and the Growth of the Mind