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because this allows them to respond to the text directly at the time that they read it. This act of notetaking produces a much more active reading, forming a connection between the mind of the reader and the words of the author.

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If you cannot do this (express thoughts in words), you don't know what you are thinking.

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Second, I annotate a book to interact with the author – to hold up my end of the conversation.  Without annotating, books are like lectures.  I make reading a conversation instead by jotting down my reactions as well as new thinking a passage leads me to. When I read or refer to the book again, my earlier, written realizations or ideas often mean more to me than the book’s text.

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...text I mark up is text I have read a few times for understanding.

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You should be in a conversation with the author of the book, which means writing questions and making annotations that will spark ideas and help you find meaning in the text.

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Marginalia are supposed to be spontaneous and fluent. “Noting” something on a Kindle feels like e-mailing yourself a throwaway remark.

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The margins, too, are often used to democratize a reader’s engagement with the text, to level the playing field as it were so that the act of reading becomes a form of robust conversation, something vigorous that approaches an act of interrogation.

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The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver

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"If marginalia helps the reader 'remember the thoughts of the author,' a far more important function, I think, is that it helps the reader remember her own resolves, her reactions, her quibbles and queries. It is a flash of insight or anger, ossified, trapped in literary amber where it can be retrieved for a later reckoning."

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"electronic marginalia...feels all wrong...the whole process seem forced and contrived. Marginalia are supposed to be spontaneous and fluent."

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"In a copy of “Fifty-five Short Stories from The New Yorker, 1940-1950” once owned by Nabokov, he observed that the former Cornell literature professor had taken the trouble to give each story a grade, neatly penciled in beside its title in the table of contents."

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–– Some are expressive whereas others are more objective and just state what is there.
––There are emotional vs. 'practical' notes taken down.

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'What I really want is someone rolling around in the text'

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'What I really want is someone rolling around in the text'

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"Books have become my journals, my critical notebooks, my creative outlets. Writing in them is the closest I come to regular meditation; marginalia is — no exaggeration — possibly the most pleasurable thing I do on a daily basis."

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...is easier when you are marking up the book.

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The space between the lines is not sacred! The readers should use them to note all their points of agreement, disagreement, doubt, and inquiry.

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-- to leave an impression on a page
–– to show understanding
–– to jot things down that you can return to later

Commenting on the reading means you are trying to understand something about it.

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The sign of intelligence in reading is the ability to read different things differently according to their worth. In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through you -- how many you can make your own.

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"And, best of all, your marks and
notes become an integral part of the book and stay there forever. You can pick up the
book the following week or year, and there are all your points of agreement,
disagreement, doubt, and inquiry."

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Importance of annotation to your thinking process 

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Importance of annotation to your thinking process 

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"Summarizing a passage’s information in the margins can help you find information quickly and can help you go beyond a first-draft reading quickly the next time you read a passage"

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The fewer the marks, the pricier the book! This is backward thinking, so take advantage of the bargains.

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"But a great book, rich in ideas and beauty, a book that raises and tries to answer great fundamental questions, demands the most active reading of which you are capable."

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• when you point out points and
• when you have to think about what you re reading in a structured manner that follows the argument of the book.

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A book is more like the score of a piece of music that it is like a painting. No great musician confuse a symphony with the printed sheets of music.

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But, you may ask, why is writing necessary? Well, the physical act of writing, with your own hand, brings words and sentences more sharply before your mind and preserves them better in your memory.

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"The third has a few books or many -- every one of them dog-eared and
dilapidated, shaken and loosened by continual use, marked and scribbled in from front to
back. (This man owns books.)"

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I contend, quite bluntly, that marking up book is not an act of mutilation but of love.

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(I think that coloring books are meant to wean us from marking books. They’re a kind of nicotine patch for preschoolers.)

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Collins: Annotating allows you to express your feelings towards the author and to think about what you think of the text.

Adler:  It allows you to bring in your thoughts while also increasing your understanding.

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Full ownership comes only when you have made it a part of yourself, and the best way to make yourself a part of it is by writing in it.

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You buy a beefsteak and transfer it from the butcher's icebox to your own. But you do not own the beefsteak in the most important sense until you consume it and get it into your bloodstream. I am arguing that books, too, must be absorbed in your blood stream to do you any good.

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I might as well start in with “how to destroy your garden.” Most people would never mark a book. Most people teach their children not to mark or draw in books.

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1- Create trails for yourself
2- engage with the author
3-learn what the book teaches
4- learn to write

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How to Mark a Book (Peter Stephens)              

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How to Mark a Book (Peter Stephens)              

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"To most adults, I think, books are rarefied or holy, perhaps too holy to interact with."

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"But you should be free to mark up most books in the most worthwhile core of your collection. "

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What does the author argue about marking up the book?

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What does the author argue about marking up the book?

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–– keeps you awake :)
–– demanding reader
––you have questions throughout the reading
––you find the answer later on in the text and mark it
––makes you memorize the events in the story better

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"I annotate my books to learn to write, or at least to learn how a sentence or paragraph was written. My improvement in writing and in literary analysis involves close readings of writers I admire. There are patterns in the use of nouns, pronouns, verbs and other parts of speech; there are patterns in syntax and in sentence variation; and there are patterns in sound devices, such as alliteration and assonance"
-Annotate to learn to learn to write, learn from how the author writes and what literary tools and devices he uses and apply them to your personal writing.