{"id":236,"date":"2006-02-09T20:28:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-10T03:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/?p=236"},"modified":"2006-02-09T20:28:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-10T03:28:00","slug":"do-you-write-in-your-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/09\/do-you-write-in-your-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Write In Your Books?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mortimer Adler, who wrote How to Read a Book, has penned a short essay on How to Mark a Book<\/a>. If you read, this essay is worth reading. I don’t agree with everything that he says, but he says much that is valuable, especially for those who are now developing reading habits for a lifetime (esp. college students and recent grads). Two choice quotes:<\/p>\n

Confusion about what it means to “own” a book leads people to a false reverence for paper, binding, and type — a respect for the physical thing — the craft of the printer rather than the genius of the author. They forget that it is possible for a man to acquire the idea, to possess the beauty, which a great book contains, without staking his claim by pasting his bookplate inside the cover. Having a fine library doesn’t prove that its owner has a mind enriched by books; it proves nothing more than that he, his father, or his wife, was rich enough to buy them….<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Or, you may say that this business of marking books is going to slow up your reading. It probably will. That’s one of the reasons for doing it. Most of us have been taken in by the notion that speed of reading is a measure of our intelligence. There is no such thing as the right speed for intelligent reading. Some things should be read quickly and effortlessly and some should be read slowly and even laboriously. The sign of intelligence in reading is the ability to read different things differently according to their worth. In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through you — how many you can make your own. A few friends are better than a thousand acquaintances.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

HT: JT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mortimer Adler, who wrote How to Read a Book, has penned a short essay on How to Mark a Book. If you read, this essay is worth reading. I don’t agree with everything that he says, but he says much that is valuable, especially for those who are now developing reading habits for a lifetime\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}