IntroductionSomebooksaretobereadonlyinparts;otherstoberead,butnotcuriously;andsomefewtobereadwholly,andwithdiligenceandattention’(Bacon).WhatBaconsaidisquitetrue;weusedifferentreadingskillsfordifferentbooks,buthowcanwereadmostefficientlyandgetinformationintheshortestpossibletime?Somepeoplearguethatalargevocabularyisthemostimportantelement,itis’everything’.Byvocabularytheymeanthosewordswhichcanberecognizedordecodedinstantlyandforwhichtheyhaveanappropriateconcept.Tosomeextent,Iagreewiththisopinion-butIdothinkreadingisaverycomplicatedprocess-itisnotaseasyasallthat.Readingconcernsmanyaspectsofthelanguage.What’smore,weneedcertainskillsinreadingtogetthebestresultfromdifferentkindsofreadingmaterials.
