How to Read a Productivity Book

There's a section in here and i wrote down some of the tactics that he had for that pre reading process, which i think is interesting. He had six points there of things that you should look at or read before you start reading the actual book. The first of is the title page and preface. So why did they write the book? When was it written? The second is table of contents. Here he says number three here is to check the index. And part of the rational for that one was to try to get some of the key terms.