“Your goal in reading determines the way you read.”
Most definitely! Since I want to soak up this book – I’m not reading it like I do an Agatha Christie. But rather I’m sitting here with a pen and notepad and scribbling down the things that I want to remember!
Such as:
The 4 levels of Reading:
(1) Elementary Reading (basic reading – ordinarily learned in elementary school)
“What does the sentence say?” (in the simplest meaning)
(2) Inspectional Reading (skimming or prereading)
It’s aim is to get the most out of the book within a given time … too little to get everything out of a book that can be gotten.
“What is the book about?”
(3) Analytical Reading (more complex and more systematic)
“What this book is mainly about”
Must ask many, and organized, questions
~~Analytical Reading is mainly for the sake of understanding~~
“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.”
~ Francis Bacon
(4) Syntopical Reading – most complex and systematic.
Comparative Reading
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I think the only thing I read at level 3 and 4 anymore is the Bible. I’ve got some retraining to do!!
