{"id":9,"date":"2009-07-23T03:22:36","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T03:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/?p=9"},"modified":"2010-05-08T03:07:06","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T03:07:06","slug":"why-we-should-write-in-our-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/why-we-should-write-in-our-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We Should Write in Our Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great thoughts from Steve Leveen (of Levenger) on why we should <a title=\"Why you should write in your books now\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.wellreadlife.com\/my_weblog\/2009\/06\/why-you-should-write-in-your-books-now-wellread-life.html\" target=\"_blank\">write in our books<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I find it nearly impossible to read without a pencil in hand.<\/p>\n<p>I underline, star, or bracket important passages, write captions or keywords at the tops of pages, argue with the author in the margin, create my own index in the front, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, it&#8217;s extremely difficult for me to read a library book. If you MUST read a book which you do not own, use an index card as a bookmark and make a list of pages you want to come back to in order to take notes. (I find that actually taking notes as I&#8217;m reading slows me down too much.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great thoughts from Steve Leveen (of Levenger) on why we should write in our books. I find it nearly impossible to read without a pencil in hand. I underline, star, or bracket important passages, write captions or keywords at the tops of pages, argue with the author in the margin, create my own index in &#8230; <a title=\"Why We Should Write in Our Books\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/why-we-should-write-in-our-books\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Why We Should Write in Our 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-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","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=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}