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It's a perfect journal that has pages for 100 books, along with an index. This is perfect for me as someone who is just starting. It's big and has lots of room to write and gives you promts of what to write where. The page layout to help me focus on d...  Read More

How to read a book is a guide to improve your ability to read for understanding. Reading well provides the reader a richer life and the knowledge to see it more clearly. Reading beyond an elementary level involves interrogating the text and asking fou...  Read More

This book really gets to the crux of these questions and much more. This transformative and timeless classic is famous for a reason. It is meticulous in detail, and honestly i had to slow down in some sections of the book to truly digest what was bein...  Read More

In defense of adler and van doren, it is apparent many reviewers often make two mistakes in their critiques. A good and fair reading means fully understanding the author on their terms, then criticizing.

The book is horrendously long for the meager amount of advice it provides. The authors expalain how a book is structured and how it was written, but they don't give you much hints, which would help you. This book is also redundant and repetitive.

It seems to me this is a case of not enough updating from original publishing to current times. The return window is past which is unfortunate. This is the only revised edition, therefore, not sending it back to store.