How Do You Skim a Book

When skimming, you move your eyes vertically as much as you move your eyes horizontally. In other words, you move your eyes down the page as much as you move them from side to side. Skimming is a bit like running down stairs.

Is it okay to skim a book?

Skimming isn’t only about testing a book’s mettle. Skimming a book before reading it also helps us extract more value from it, though this may seem strange. By reviewing the book’s main arguments before reading it more deeply, we’re mentally preparing to receive them.

What are the 3 types of skimming?

Skimming is the process of quickly viewing a section of text to get a general impression of the author’s main argument, themes or ideas. There are three types of skimming: preview, overview, and review.