Unlock Hard Books with Active Reading @benjaminkeep
Unlock Hard Books with Active Reading  @benjaminkeep
Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
There are some basic questions we should ask if we want to learn from a book. Here they are.

00:00 Introduction - active reading
00:56 The first big question
02:45 The second big question
03:44 The third big question
05:37 The fourth big question

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This video and other videos in this series are based on an excellent book: How to Read a Book, by Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren. I highly recommend it. You can purchase it here: bookshop.org/a/91541/9780671212094.

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