Three years after writing the expanded third edition of How to Read a Book, Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren did a series of thirteen 14-minute videos called How to Read a Book Video. The videos were produced and published by Encyclopædia Britannica. For unknown reasons sometime after their original publication, these videos had been lost for many years.
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