写在前面：
这本书的名声很大，大家的评价也很高。可谓是经典中的经典。其实以前也翻了翻，不过有点看不进去。不过，下面这个导图倒是一直存在我的手机里。
希望能通过这次的阅读，能够提升阅读的能力，增强理解力。希望以后看书的时候能够走点心...
Thoughts:
1.
作者对读书的艺术的定义如下：
Thus we can roughly define what we mean by the art of readingas follows:
the process whereby a mind, with nothing to operate on butthe symbols of the readable matter, and with no help from outside,* elevates itself by the power of its own operations.The mind passes from understanding less to understanding more.The skilled operationsthat cause this tohappen are the various acts that constitute the art of reading.To pass from understanding less to understanding morebyyour own intellectual effortin reading is something like pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.
大意是通过自身的努力，并且需要一些技巧，来增强理解力。
2.
作者说读书有3个目的：获取知识，理解力，娱乐。并且讲了这3个目的的区别。提出读书要读拔高一些的，能让自己真正有所提升的，而不是干瘪瘪的新闻，杂志类信息。类似于i+1方法。
3.
文章确实有些啰嗦，有些话都在重复。有时想想，这类工具类的书，直接读中文不是更爽快，更能学到想学的东西。
不过，从学点儿英文的角度，读原版未尝不是件好事。
4.
书里说instruction=aided discovery. 确实，读书学习这回事，老师只能起个引子作用，接下的路还得自己走。知识要自己去吸收、内化、成长。
5.特别喜欢下面这句话：
Thinking is only one part of the activity of learning. One must also use one’s senses and imagination.
The art of reading, in short, includes all of thesame skills that are involved in the art of unaided discovery:keenness of observation, readily available memory, range of imagination, and, of course, an intellect trained in analysis and reflection.
阅读需要思考，需要感官，需要想象力。
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自己总结：读书的艺术应该是经过思考来进行积极读书，并运用一些技巧，如想象力，并依靠自己来增强理解力。
Summary：
The Activity and Art of Reading
At the beginning ,the writer tells us that this book is for readers of books. Readers are those whose main purpose in reading books is to gain increased understanding.This book is about the art of reading for the increased understanding.The primary goal of this book is that we must know how to make books teach us well.
Active reading
Most people read passively without thinking. The writer tells us that the more we read actively, the better. In addition, we also need some skills when reading.
The goal of reading:reading for information and reading for understanding.
The writer summarises that there are three kinds of reading goals: Reading forinformation, for increased understandingg, for entertainment. we alsoknow the distinctions among the three. We could only learn from"betters."
Reading as learning:the difference between learnig by instructin andlearning by discovery
We should have enlightenment when reading. Remembering what he says is very different from understading what he means.
Reading widely is no better than reading well. Ordanary people often have many misconceptions about reading.
Present and absent teachers
When you ask a book a question, you must answer it on your own.
Words and Phrases:
1.But it may be seriously questioned whether the advent of modern communications media has much enhanced our understanding of the world in which we live.
the arrival of an event, invention or person （事件、发明或人物的）出现，来临，到来
•Life in Britain was transformed by theadventofthe steam engine.
蒸汽机的出现使英国人的生活发生了翻天覆地的变化。
2.hazy：
(of a person 人) uncertain or confused about sth • 主意不定的；困惑的:
»I'm a little hazy about what to do next.
我还有点拿不准下一步要做什么呢。
3.blockhead
noun countable ■a stupid person 傻瓜，笨蛋
