Thank you for giving me the well-worded retort for those who say that you shouldn't write, or highlight, in books. I used to be among them until I realized exactly that in which you wrote on the subject. You just happened to use better wording than I would've. By the way, the blog Marginalia is a wonderful example of the type of writing in which one can find plenty of passages to highlight!
Thank you, Jeff. The "clean book" rule dies hard. I suspect it survives because we confuse respecting the object with respecting the ideas, when marking a page is often the higher form of respect: proof that something landed. Happy the essay gave you the wording. And I'll take the Marginalia recommendation; a blog built to be highlighted is exactly the kind of writing the chain needs.
Here's the question this piece leaves me with: whose highlights would you most want to see inside a book you're reading?
I'll go first: Naval on "The Beginning of Infinity". Seeing what he underlined would be worth the book price alone.
Learning from what others marked as important is the founding idea of Glasp: https://read.glasp.co/p/why-im-building-glasp
Thank you for giving me the well-worded retort for those who say that you shouldn't write, or highlight, in books. I used to be among them until I realized exactly that in which you wrote on the subject. You just happened to use better wording than I would've. By the way, the blog Marginalia is a wonderful example of the type of writing in which one can find plenty of passages to highlight!
Thank you, Jeff. The "clean book" rule dies hard. I suspect it survives because we confuse respecting the object with respecting the ideas, when marking a page is often the higher form of respect: proof that something landed. Happy the essay gave you the wording. And I'll take the Marginalia recommendation; a blog built to be highlighted is exactly the kind of writing the chain needs.