Mortimer Adler gave us a recommendation during our active reading. It is : Ask questions while you read questions that you yourself must try to answer in the course of reading."



He explain that there are four main questions we have to ask about any book we read.



1. What is the book about as a whole?

2. What is being said in detail, and how?

3. Is the book true, in whole or part?

4. What of it?



The author gave us another suggestion and its is to mark our book.



This because it at first "keeps you awake not merely conscious, but wide awake. Second, reading, if it is active,is thinking, and thinking tends to express itself in words, spoken or written. The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks. Third, writing your reactions down helps you to remember the thoughts of the author."

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Devices for marking a book:​



1. Underlining
2. Vertical lines at the margin
3. Star, asterisk, or other doodad at the margin.
4. Numbers in the margin
5. Numbers of other pages in the margin
6. Circling of key words or phrases
7. Writing in the margin, or at the top or bottom of the page



The Three Kinds of Note-making



1) Inspectional reading:

--what kind of book is it?

--what is it about as a whole?

--what is the structural order of the work whereby the author develops his conception or understanding of that general subject matter?

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2) Analytical Reading

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3) Syntopical Reading:

--Shape of the discussion.



Forming the Habit of Reading



In this part the author explain how to form a good habit of reading. The only way we can develop that habit is by practice. If we pass all the time complaining about the complexity of the readings instead of start reading at them we are wasting time that we can use instead to read. 



I am one example of this habit of reading. In my school I didn't need the habit of reading to be graduated. Now in college y suffer the consequences because sometimes I am very afraid of reading, but now with MPC and reading this book I am encourage to try read doesn't matter if I didn't understand all the phrases in the book. With practice I now that some day I would be a very good and analytic reader.