i contend, quite bluntly, that marking up a book is not an act of mutilation but of love.
there are tht you establish by paying for it, just as you pay for clothes and furniture. but this act of purchase is only the prelude to possession. full o in it. an illustration may make the point clear. you buy a beefsteak and transfer it from the butcher’s icebox to your oet it into your bloodstream. i am arguing that books, too, must be absorbed in your bloodstream to do you any good.
there are three kinds of book oreat many books—a feh, most of them dipped into, but all of them as clean and shiny as the day they ht.（this person eared and dilapidated, shaken and loosened by continual use, marked and scribbled in from front to back. this man o up a book indispensable to reading it? first, it keeps you a, if it is active, is thinking, and thinking lends to express itself in ht-through book. finally helps you remember the thoughts you had, or the thoughts the author expressed.
if reading is to accomplish anything more than passing time, it must be active. you can’t let your eyes glida across the jinns of a book and come up of is lost. but a great book rich in ideas and beauty, a book that raises and tries to ansreat fundamental questions, demands the most active reading of a book the pages are filled with your notes, you know that you read actively.
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