To reject highlighting or underlining is often to privilege the book as an object, its unblemished form, its aesthetic integrity, over the living act of reading itself. Yet at the opposite extreme, the excessive use of these very tools may signal a different kind of displacement: a concern not with understanding, but with the performance of reading, where the marks serve less as aids to thought than as gestures of diligence or display. In both cases, whether through reverence for the artifact or through the spectacle of annotation, the essence of reading risks being obscured.
>performative memeing
Aesthetic integrity enhances reading. Pages of shitty scribbles and random colours impairs it.
>>24746609>t. has the personality of a shoe
>>24746604You can just use post it notes and then you also know what page it was on.
>>24746604I examined myself and determined I highlight and underline the exact right amount.
>>24746647>no room for improvementbleak.
I just use pencil so i can erase it whenever
i cum on my books
I cum on other people’s books.
>>24746771that too
Highlighting/underlining is blasphemous not only aesthetically but intellectually. If the author had meant something to be emphasized in the text he could have done so HIMSELF. Adding emphasis yourself distorts the meaning on subsequent readings. It's a tool used by cretins to force themselves to pay attention.
I only mark up nonfiction and the Bible. Always enjoy reading some used book where a literal retard has underlined words that aren't crucial to the conveyance of the idea of theme being presented in the passage, or retarded notes from dead pre-boomers in beautifully written cursive script.
>>24748224pseud
>>24748224Tad dramatic but I largely agree. I spent most of my 20s "annotating" many of my books, and how I wish I hadn't.There's a couple of now out of print and rare books of poetry and metaphysics that look particularly bad. Can't buy replacements..Don't annotate or mark your books, unless you're a writer or otherwise in some related profession. It's a meme.
>>24748295>>24748224This is why penguin editions exist, just use a pencil bro lol
>>24748299The fact that I mentioned rare books aside, 10 years from now you're not going to get much out of that marginalia. It mostly gets in the way.
Here are the correct opinions:Keeping a separate notebook or file where you record thoughts and/or quotes is the ideal.Highlighting and underlining is excusable if done privately (not posted on reddit for other faggots) and not excessively.Writing notes in the margins is completely retarded.
