Francis Bacon once remarked “some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.” Today’s StumbleUpon advent find is this article on How to Read a Book, which looks at the four levels of reading Mortimer Adler wrote about:
Elementary
Inspectional
Analytical
Syntopical
In short, the goal of reading determines how you read.
http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/how-to-read-a-book/