How To Read A Book: (This is an outline of part of Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren’s excellent book, "How To Read A Book." The outline takes one up to the third level of reading - analytical reading., How to Read a Book didn’t even attempt to answer my current most important question in reading: How do I know what to save or pay attention to? More attentive reading (including but not limited to note-taking) takes more time and more mental effort., Claim a FREE Consulting Call: Message ️ @andyqmai (instagram) or consulting@andymai.org Back with another book review for you guys! It's LITERALLY about how to properly read books., The authors of the work, Mortimer J Adler and Charles van Doren, argue that books are ‘absent teachers’, and that if you are going to learn effectively from these absent teachers, you have to read in a particular way., Review: How to Read a Book (Mortimer Adler, Charles Van Doren) As part of my research on how to bootstrap understanding in a field, I’m reading books that attempt to answer that question. You might think I should have started with that, but it was useful to get a sense of what problems I needed to solve before I looked for the solution., At first glance, writing something called How to Read a Book may seem altogether obvious, and more than a little unnecessary. This book by Mortimer Adler and Charles van Doren is anything but. A classic book—first published more than 80 years ago, with an update published in 1972, this is a book that is anything but obvious..