{"id":197,"date":"2005-07-25T20:30:32","date_gmt":"2005-07-25T20:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/?p=197"},"modified":"2010-05-08T20:31:05","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T20:31:05","slug":"do-you-write-in-your-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/do-you-write-in-your-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Write in Your Books?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Browse through the library of any writer or  exemplary teacher and you will find the leaves of the book dog-eared and  scribbled notations in all the margins. No one interested in what an  author is saying should read without pencil in hand.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>~ Harry Golden, <em>So What Else Is New<\/em> (1964)<\/p>\n<p>This explains why I almost always choose to buy a  book rather than checking it out from the public library. I find it  impossible to read anything (with the\u00a0exception of some novels&#8211;but even  good novels have\u00a0passages worthy of marking) without marking in it.\u00a0 I  underline key passages, write topical headings or pertinent quotes at  the top of important pages, put question marks or stars\u00a0 or long  vertical lines in the margin,\u00a0argue with the author in the margin, and  make a list on the front flyleaf of page numbers I particularly wish to  go back to.<\/p>\n<p>How do you mark your books?<\/p>\n<p>Mary Jo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Browse through the library of any writer or exemplary teacher and you will find the leaves of the book dog-eared and scribbled notations in all the margins. No one interested in what an author is saying should read without pencil in hand. ~ Harry Golden, So What Else Is New (1964) This explains why I &#8230; <a title=\"Do You Write in Your Books?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/do-you-write-in-your-books\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Do You Write in Your Books?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}