How to Read a Book | Mortimer J. Adler & Charles Van Doren | Book Summary
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How to Get Started With Active Reading
Make every book you read your own. Always approach reading as a conversation with the author. If you can't restate the author's position better than they can, you don't know it well enough to help fix it. The most important word in the sentence above isn't speed, it's appropriate. Every book should be read no more slowly than it deserves and no more quickly than you can read it with the satisfaction and comprehension.
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