How to read a book

1. “Marking a book is literally an experience of your differences or agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.” — Edgar Allen Po

2. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested — Francis Bacon

3. Classify the book according to kind and subject matter.

4. State What the whole book is about with the utmost brevity.

5. Enumerate its major parts in their order and relation, and outline these parts as you have outlined the whole.

6. Define The problem or problems the author is trying to solve.