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Title: How to lose ten dollars and up to an hour of your time
Review: I figure that one reads books for knowledge and/or enjoyment, and "How to read a book" has little to offer in either regard. It is a thoughtful and eloquent book, but, in my opinion, practical advice found in it could fit on a couple of small pages, and should not be new. (In essence, the advice is: "It makes sense to read a book in more than one pass, scanning/skimming at first", and "Do not read passively, but think about what you read, engage with the author's ideas"). Speaking of enjoyment, one may like the old-fashioned writing style, but surely can find it elsewhere for free - you might as well read, say, Hume or Darwin. Whatever your hopes for this investment of your money and time are, you would do better by looking elsewhere.
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