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title: "Advent — How to Read a Book"
description: "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..."
url: https://somisguided.com/2013/12/13/advent-how-to-read-a-book/
date: 2013-12-13
modified: 2013-12-13
author: "Monique"
type: post
lang: en
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# Advent — How to Read a Book

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 (http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/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/