I love to read them for the pleasure of the story and once read I can put it out of my mind.

Adler is largely self-serving in painting a picture of a true book owner/reader. If he feels he is so qualified, why not write your own story and me, you, o ranybody else critique his writings, such as I am doing here as to Mr. On the other hand, it appears to be so self-serving, to suggest or indicate that he, the reader, can critique the authro’s writing and write notes with hiw own beliefs. I don’t think this will relate to the particular written words referenced inthe note unless you go further and write in the page and line numbers.Īs for ingesting the written words, like bathing in print, I do not think it applies in a general sense because nowadays there is so much smut and pornography, cuss words and violence written about it, besides in the movies ,that the younger generation is liable to confuse or assimilate this type of written work as gospel and reere the author of such writings, not just books, but movies, plays, skits - you name it. So who decidees? Current book reviews, hurried scanning through the book, or take it personally that if you are a true lover of books, you have to stop reading and mark up the book with your notes or, as he says, write your notes on pieces of paper and attach them to the front or back of the book. Of course, that applies to any book worth reading. The author, as I see it, would like for every reader to ingest the written word of a book. I sort of went through the paper you gave me on “How to Mark A Book.” Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men. This post is by my first guest reviewer - my mom! This is a draft.

The article “How to Mark A Book”, written by Mortimer Adler, appeared in Saturday Review in 1940.

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