Saturday, February 15, 2025

How to Read a Book: Levels of Reading

 Back on this. I'd like to try to get through the whole thing before I dive into more heavy classics reading. We'll see how long it takes.

Adler's levels of reading are popular blog fodder already, and I don't think I can add a ton to the conversation from this short intro, so I'm going to just copy my notes in here and see if I want to be the 9001st blog post on them in depth once I finish the whole book.

1. Elementary: "What does the sentence say?"

2. Inspectional: "What is the book about?" Skimming Systemically

3. Analytical: Active understanding (no question :()

4. Synoptical: Compare and connect to other texts.

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