Have you ever found a highlighted book that wasn't indicative of being once owned by a marvelously stupid person?I don't mean notes or marginalia, though we can discuss that here as well.
Every time I get a used book with notes and annotations written in they're usually either so vague as to be indecipherable in determining what the previous reader's purpose or thoughts were, or were just incredibly stupid or incorrect observations. The older the book, the better quality the margin notes are, though, I've noticed. When I was younger used books from the 20s, 30s, and 40s were much more common than they are today, I miss that. They had better handwriting, too.Anyway, I do mark up my Bible, but never bothered with anything else, as I was never a student of higher education, and I read for pleasure.
>>24780346the only worthwhile or rather memorable note in a used book i've ever seen was one page which read "the winged victory of samothrace". that was it. nice statue obviously. wasn't even related to the text, and it was on the last page.
>>24780319my biology teacher used to tell us to highlight practically everything in the textbookthe books where second hand and owned by the school, so all the text would be luminous green from the last person who owned it.
>>24780477this is what bothers me, what the fuck is the point, all it does is make everything difficult to read. is it one of those situations where the instructor is just trying to make a point, that you should pore over everything because it's all going to be in "da test" or do they really mean it literally? if a teacher told me that and meant it, i'd walk out and get my fucking money back pronto.
>>24780319It depends on the intended use, I doubt it helps much if you expect to memorize formulas or anatomy. I highlight the words I don't know, so I can research them later but I'm ESL.On the other hand, I 'm retarded so it does nothing to disprove your hypothesis.
>>24780505Do what you're doing bub, I'm just voicing frustration at a pet peeve of mine. Tired of buying books which get here with ballpoint pen drawn through THE CENTER of every sixth (and irrelevant) line. If it has a purpose to you, and it works, I get it, but the majority of this shit is simply idiotic.
>>24780487Teachers are just trying to get kids to actively read instead of glazing over the pages mindlessly. For that it's pretty effective although my teachers required the usage of post it notes and a minimum number of them per reading session and what we should be taking notes on, such as new vocabulary we looked up, or different elements of writing that we were learning, and I found that much better than highlighting and it didn't vandalize the book.
I don't buy secondhand books but everyone I noticed excessively highlighting in University I had ALREADY thought they were retarded so then I learned to associate highlighting with retardation.I never took notes in class (as they were usually generally what was in the textbook anyway) and figured most people would be better off if they spent that time/effort listening and thinking instead but maybe notes really does help certain people mitigate their retardation. As I have gotten older it has become like a lot of things to me, I don't care what other people do or why.
>>24780319I sometimes pick up reference books full of highlights, and they're always either>85% of the material in every paragraph>the most obvious snippets of the text, not the nuanced partsOne of these days someone's going to see these books and assume I have the mind of a third-grader.
>>24780568>As I have gotten older it has become like a lot of things to me, I don't care what other people do or why.What does this mean? Were you sperging out at your classmates for writing things down before?
>>24780319How can you judge the previous owner’s intelligence when you don’t know the reasoning behind their highlighting scheme? Your concluding based on incomplete evidence indicates stupidity more than highlighting ever could.
>>24780487>that you should pore over everything because it's all going to be in "da test"What's funny is literature classes don't even have tests 99% of the time. Double majored in English in Uni and only had one class where the professor bothered to do reading checks, ever.
>>24780671In my mind, a little, they were living rent free. Now I have enough of my own problems.>>24780709Are you implying they may have been highlighting what they think is less meaningful? it's pretty objective a lot of the time when lines are straightforward without deep/hidden meaning.>it's stupid to think you have any decent comprehension of the text at allpostmodernists are the worst, also note the fact that people like you can only criticise others, you cant posit anything of your own like instead of stating possible valid reasons for highlighting excessive amounts of text you take the easy route and imply everything is subjective.also >your
>>24780709if more than 50% of the entire text is highlighted, then the highlighting is more a defacement of the text than anything useful
>buy used book>notes in the the first few pages>nothing afterEvery time.
>>24780793the absolute chad who owned my thucydides underlined in the introduction and nowhere else
