by Mortimer J. Adler
莫提默.J.艾德勒写这本书是因为美国教育中缺乏指导阅读的课程，导致美国大多数的青少年甚至成年人都出现阅读效率低，阅读理解能力弱，严重缺乏掌握阅读的技巧，而随着信息化的到来，这些人更是难以拥有足够的理解力来从信息化的时代中获取到足够的养分来为自己服务。基于为填补国家教育事业的教育缺口，莫提默.J.艾德勒和查尔斯.范多伦辛苦耕耘，才有了这本非常完善非常难得的一本书。希望能通过这次的阅读，能够提升阅读的能力，增强理解力。以后看书的时候能够走点心...
Preface
Readers of the book knew, though its title did not indicate this with complete accuracy, that the subject was not how to read any book, but how to read a great book.
读书并不是随便读，而要有选择性。集中精力挑选并阅读一本好书，往往比随便看几本来的有效。这也是作者定此标题的首要意图——A guide to Reading the Great Books. 文中的所有技巧方法都旨在引导读者将此用于好书上。
To the Average Reader
This is a book for readers who cannot read.
至此表明了作者写这本书的的明显目的，也使读者对自我身份进行了一个衡量，带着内心需求去读这本书。
Last summer, while I was writing this book, a young man visited me, He had heard what I was doing, and he came to ask a favor. Would I tell him how to improve his reading? He obviously expected me to answer the question in a few sentences. More than that, he appeared to think that once he had learned the simple prescription,success would be just around the corner.
读书并不是一件简单的事，成功亦然来之不易：
There are rules for each of the different steps you must take to complete the reading of a whole book.
It is for student in shool and college who may occasionally wonder how tohelp themselves to education.
作为一名大学生，拥有良好的学习环境和充裕的学习资源，我们应该取其所用不断提升自己。书读百遍，常读常新，每一遍的阅读都能让我们受益倍增。
秋风十里不如好书有趣
持续更新……希望我能从此学会how to read a book.
