I've been reading Mortimer J. Adler's How to Read a Book, and in section 5 he insists that writing in a book is necessary to get the most out of reading, and his points are sensible. However, I hate the idea of defacing a book. Is anyone aware of acceptable substitutes for this practice? Would writing notes in a notebook have the same effect?
I've been reading Mortimer J. Adler's How to Read a Book...
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Camden Watson
if you're that spergy just buy facsimilie copies for notes and another copy ?!
Daniel Lopez
>Would writing notes in a notebook have the same effect?
As long as you document the necessary details(or leave page numbers) then I dont see why it wouldn't have the same effect.
Matthew White
Ir's silly to dislike writing inside books. You don't have to do it as obnoxiously as in pic related. You should write both inside and outside the book. I actually really like when books have writing in them. It's like free and unique bonus material.
I'm bias, as I not only write in the white space, underline sentences and vertically line paragraphs, I also crease the pages to point to very important parts or pictures.
Anyways, I understand your concern. Write using an outside notebook.
How To Read A Book is kino, btw. Great stuff.
Aaron Walker
So the answer is, I really rarely write in my books. There are better things to be doing. :3
Grayson King
Poor / difficult to find copies of some of the works I have that I consider to be most important and worthy of heavy analysis. A decent idea, nonetheless.
Thank you both for your replies. This book, even though I haven't finished it, has changed the way I look at books, particularly the notion of inspectional reading. It's definitely cured some of my autism when it comes to the way that I read books, which have been serious roadblocks. I used to obsess over what I didn't understand, rereading it repeatedly hoping that a brute force attack would help somehow, which would stop be dead in my tracks. Definitely going to recommend it to every retard I know.
Lincoln Martinez
I feel the same way. I'm only about 1/5th of the way through and it's already changed the way I live my life. It has improved my real life listening and observation skills as well as my ability to discern truth and understanding. Also not necessarily related but I've seen the book mentioned 5 different times in the past day, but before this I've only heard it mentioned once or twice.
Adrian Perry
>It has improved my real life listening [...] Skills
Adler actually wrote another book about that, titled "How to Speak How to Listen" which may be worth checking out. I own a copy but have yet to crack it open. I would like to become a better speaker after I become a better reader.
Easton Watson
post-it notes where you want to leave a note
dont let them hang out the pages though
Alexander Gomez
Adler was also an economist.
If you have the chance, read 'The Capitalist Manifesto', after reading The Communist Manifesto and some Greek philosophy. The message is really well crafted and excellently thought out. Some of the themes aren't as developed as they could be and the sources are actually a bit lacking, but you are most likely 21 years old, you don't care about that right now anyway. :3