![]() ![]() ![]() “ This is a book for readers and for those who wish to become readers. I’ve organized content into my own themes.īook Summary Contents: Click a link here to jump to a section below.I’ve added emphasis in bold for readability/skimmability.All content not in quotation marks is paraphrased from original quotes.All content in quotation marks is from the author unless otherwise stated.As Pascal observed three hundred years ago, ‘When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.'” - Mortimer Adler One constant is that, to achieve all the purposes of reading, the desideratum must be the ability to read different things at different-appropriate-speeds, not everything at the greatest possible speed. ![]() “Certain things have not changed in the last thirty years. It was then revised and co-authored in 1972 with Charles Van Doren. How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler was originally published in 1940. ![]()
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