Review Of Mortimer Adler's Essay 'How To Mark A Book'

Mortimer Adler’s, “How to Mark a Book” essay did not start like most English essays I have read. This essay related to me so much as a reader. His reasons for marking up a book will make even the most “die-hard anti-book-marker” question why they have not been doing it. He gives a list of the devices he uses to mark a book in an effective way, which did cause a few questions for me. I understand that he has a number of ways to mark a book because of the importance he finds in marking up a book. My questions with marking a book up would be would all those markings be too much to look at? If the markings were too much, would the markings take away from the actual meaning of the book? Despite these questions, I completely agree with the point