Marking up a book by Margaret Eisenhauer https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9 en-us 2019-04-01 14:56:49 UTC 2023-03-27 13:36:48 UTC hello@padlet.com How to Mark a Book by Peter Stephens https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347220064 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.]]> 2019-04-01 15:06:44 UTC https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347220064 coconnor202 https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347220149  "But you should be free to mark up most books in the most worthwhile core of your collection. "]]> 2019-04-01 15:06:52 UTC https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347220149 How to mark A Book (Adler) https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347220758  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. ]]> 2019-04-01 15:07:45 UTC https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347220758 How to Mark a Book (Peter Stephens) https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347220802 "To most adults, I think, books are rarefied or holy, perhaps too holy to interact with." ]]> 2019-04-01 15:07:49 UTC https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347220802 How to Mark a Book by Peter Stephens https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347221099  (I think that coloring books are meant to wean us from marking books. They’re a kind of nicotine patch for preschoolers.)]]> 2019-04-01 15:08:15 UTC https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347221099 How to mark a book Alder extended https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347221330  "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.)" ]]> 2019-04-01 15:08:36 UTC https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347221330 Reasons to Annotate a Book coconnor202 https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347221388 1- Create trails for yourself 
2- engage with the author
3-learn what the book teaches 
4- learn to write ]]> 2019-04-01 15:08:40 UTC https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347221388 How to mark A book (Adler) https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347221389  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. 

 
]]> 2019-04-01 15:08:41 UTC https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347221389 How to Mark a Book https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347221401 I contend, quite bluntly, that marking up book is not an act of mutilation but of love.]]> 2019-04-01 15:08:41 UTC https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347221401 Why mark a book lrieffel20 https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347222117  "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.]]> 2019-04-01 15:09:53 UTC https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347222117 How to mark a book (Adler) https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347222663  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. ]]> 2019-04-01 15:10:51 UTC https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347222663 How to Mark a Book https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347223052 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.]]> 2019-04-01 15:11:36 UTC https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347223052 How to mark a book Alder extended https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347223080 "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." ]]> 2019-04-01 15:11:39 UTC https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347223080 How to Mark a Book (Peter Stephens) https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347223266 The fewer the marks, the pricier the book! This is backward thinking, so take advantage of the bargains.]]> 2019-04-01 15:11:59 UTC https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347223266 Importance of annotation to your thinking process lrieffel20 https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347224049 "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"]]> 2019-04-01 15:13:23 UTC https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347224049 How to Mark a book Alder extended https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347224429 "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."]]> 2019-04-01 15:14:02 UTC https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347224429 How to mark A book (Adler) https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347225156 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.]]> 2019-04-01 15:15:19 UTC https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347225156 Slow reads https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347225799 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.


]]> 2019-04-01 15:16:23 UTC https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347225799 How to Mark a BookBy Mortimer J. Adler https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347225915 The space between the lines is not sacred! The readers should use them to note all their points of agreement, disagreement, doubt, and inquiry.]]> 2019-04-01 15:16:37 UTC https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347225915 'What I really want is someone rolling around in the text' https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347227215 "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."]]> 2019-04-01 15:18:55 UTC https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347227215 The Marginal Obsession with Marginalia https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347228662 "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."]]> 2019-04-01 15:21:32 UTC https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347228662 The Marginal Obsession with Marginalia https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347229387 "electronic marginalia...feels all wrong...the whole process seem forced and contrived. Marginalia are supposed to be spontaneous and fluent." ]]> 2019-04-01 15:22:55 UTC https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347229387 The Millions https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347229673 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.]]> 2019-04-01 15:23:27 UTC https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347229673 The Marginal Obsession with Marginalia https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347232105 Marginalia are supposed to be spontaneous and fluent. “Noting” something on a Kindle feels like e-mailing yourself a throwaway remark.]]> 2019-04-01 15:27:25 UTC https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347232105 On the Hidden life of Marginalia coconnor202 https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347232267   "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."]]> 2019-04-01 15:27:37 UTC https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347232267 Different styles for marking up meisenhauer2 https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347874883 –– Some are expressive whereas others are more objective and just state what is there.
––There are emotional vs. 'practical' notes taken down.]]> 2019-04-03 00:21:52 UTC https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347874883 Billy Collins / Mortimer Adler meisenhauer2 https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347875114 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.]]> 2019-04-03 00:23:23 UTC https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347875114 It's a conversation meisenhauer2 https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347875507 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.]]> 2019-04-03 00:25:28 UTC https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347875507 Spotting repetitions meisenhauer2 https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347875668 ...is easier when you are marking up the book.]]> 2019-04-03 00:26:23 UTC https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347875668 Why annotate? meisenhauer2 https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347875787 -- 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.]]> 2019-04-03 00:26:58 UTC https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347875787 Often meisenhauer2 https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347875933 ...text I mark up is text I have read a few times for understanding.]]> 2019-04-03 00:28:01 UTC https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347875933 Expressing thoughts in words meisenhauer2 https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347876054 If you cannot do this (express thoughts in words), you don't know what you are thinking.]]> 2019-04-03 00:28:40 UTC https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347876054 Annotations should be made meisenhauer2 https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347876271 • 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.]]> 2019-04-03 00:30:14 UTC https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347876271 Good readers write in the margin meisenhauer2 https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347877601 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.]]> 2019-04-03 00:37:15 UTC https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347877601 What does the author argue about marking up the book? meisenhauer2 https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347878028 –– 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]]> 2019-04-03 00:39:24 UTC https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/347878028 David Foster Wallace's Marginalia coconnor202 https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/348024429   ]]> 2019-04-03 12:21:22 UTC https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/348024429 https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/348025255 The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver]]> 2019-04-03 12:23:30 UTC https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/348025255 Christopher Hitchen's Marginalia coconnor202 https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/348025690 2019-04-03 12:24:41 UTC https://padlet.com/meisenhauer2/opknaslprzt9/wish/348025690