One of the books I'm going to have my highschooler go through is "How to Read a Book" by Mortimer Adler and Charles van Doren. Even though he hasn't started the book yet, while he's being introduced to the various high school courses I do want him to use some of the principles contained. Fortunately, the internet makes it super-easy to preview concepts in books -- in effect, do some of the pre-reading or as Adler says, "inspectional reading" that helps one to get the most from the act of reading.
Here are a few links:
A blog summary of the book. He quotes a fairly substantial section of the chapter on inspectional reading.
A Google preview of the chapter.
How to Read a Difficult Book (hint: just read it)
A tutorial on reading 101
An outline of the whole book.
A couple of PDFs
How to read a book for discussion
How to Read a Book (College study skills)
another version
Common Room (with link to video clip)
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