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Do You Guys Write in Your Books?
“Most intelligent people do, Jason.” So I was told by another Member, when I said that I don’t. I guess it goes back to my schooling, when we were told that Very Bad Things would happen if we defiled the holy works of Wiley or Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
Also, I always considered it kind of cranky: my grandmother would talk back to the author in her marginal notes (exclamation points were plentiful) and I always wanted to tell her, “You know, he can’t actually hear you…”
But it’s undeniable that these things can enrich the reading experience. Marginalia can be a source of knowledge not only about the text but about the context.
So: have you ever found any little gems in a used book? Do you go back and re-read your books and notes? What have you garnered from that?
Published in General, Literature
None. That is sacrilege.
Writing notes in books is taught from a number of people. I’m really surprised at how many here don’t.
I like to set my coffee cup down in a different place each time to make little coffee Olympic rings on my covers.
The only books that I make markings on are cookbooks. Sometimes I modify recipes. Other times I just clarify ingredients (e.g. a recipe calls for 1/2 cup of packed brown sugar, and I note that it is 109g, so that I can just put the bowl on the scale instead of fiddling about with squishing something that I’m about to mix).
Hang on — Jamal Rudert?!?
What the what?
Yeah. I’m black now.
Video of a dunk from the three point line or it didn’t happen…
I don’t have to conform to your norms, sir.
I’d like to be the first to welcome Jamal to Ricochet.
I take it that you are familiar with this lady.
http://chicksontheright.com/blog/item/29367-black-naacp-president-opens-up-about-the-controversy-says-she-doesn-t-give-a-crap-what-we-lowly-commoners-think
She’s been an inspiration to me for a long time. And I’d like to applaud you, ma’am, for finally revealing the True Self inside.
Well it has been difficult. You see I am actually a womyn inhabiting a man’s body. But I am also a homosexual so I am attracted to other womyn. I am also a cross dresser so I like to dress like a man. From the outside I look like a man but from the inside I am so conflicted and know I am a womyn, and maybe a wolf, possibly a black female wolf. I just don’t know, for sure.
I can only do one thing at a time.
Read and listen to music or read and watch TV. No neurons left for note taking. Besides, were I to apply some graphite to a page, a long line of nuns armed with wooden yard sticks would rise from the past to administer remedial education.
I am an inveterate page dog earer. It’s a way to mark my territory.
I don’t know how one can read with radio or TV on. Or even people living in the same neighborhood. I need complete silence, time to clear my head, and then momentum. I need to be several pages in before I start registering anything.
My father would read the paper, watch TV, and carry on a conversation at the same time. I never was able to do it.
Did ya hear the news that Mork wrecked Aunt Cathy’s new car? The one with the rich Corinthian leather? Yeah, it was all right there in the papers.
KHAAAAANNNN!!!