The difference between reading for information and reading for understanding is not as simple as you might think. Reading for information is the act of reading newspapers, magazines, or anything else that, according to our skills and abilities, we can understand immediately Such reading may increase our quantity of information, but it cannot improve our understanding. Reading for understanding is reading something that at first we do not completely understand. In this case, the thing to be read is, at the beginning, “superior” to the reader. The writer is communicating something that can increase the reader’s understanding.