If you're a Mortimer Adler fan, particularly of How to Read a Book, you may like this article: How to Mark a Book.
If you resell all your books after you read them once, this isn't the article for you.
If you resell all your books after you read them once, this isn't the article for you.
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Thanks! I really enjoyed this essay! My husband and I are both fans of Mortimer Adler's How to Read a Book. But it poses a special dilemma for our family. On the one hand, we have a very hard time re-selling books, but on the other hand, I have a hard time writing in them, or re-reading them when I have written in them. When I go back to one of my own books, I somehow feel like I want the re-read to be a "clean slate" in a new time. Still, I really like the encouragement to "make a book your own" by delving deeply into it. A good counterpoint to the "throwaway culture" we see, even in the bookstore world.
After reading Adler's HTRAB, I've become a scribbler in my books....hey, doesn't that HELP the next reader out?! I love reading others' notes in the margins of old books. : )
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