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CHAPTER FOURTEEN

And Still More Rules

1
SAITH the Preacher: "Of making many books there is no
end, and much study is weariness of the flesh." You prob-
ably feel that way about the reading of books by now, and
the rules for doing so. I hasten to say, therefore, that this
chapter is not going to increase the number of rules you
have to worry about. All the basic rules have now been
stated in general.Here I am going to try to be more particular by con-
sidering the rules in application to different kinds of books.
And I shall return briefly to the problem of extrinsic read-
ing. So far we have kept our nose in the book. There are
a few points to make about the utility of looking outside
the book you are reading, in order to read it well.Before I undertake either of these matters, it may be
helpful to present all the rules in a single table, each writ-
ten in the form of a simple prescription.
I. THE ANALYSIS OF A BOOK'S STRUCTURE
1. Classify the book according to kind and subject
matter.
2. State what the whole book is about with the
utmost brevity.
3. Enumerate its major parts in their order and
relation, and analyze these parts as you have
analyzed the whole.

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Publication Information: Book Title: How to Read a Book: The Art of Getting a Liberal Education. Contributors: Mortimer J. Adler - author. Publisher: Simon and Schuster. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1967. Page Number: 266.
    
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