Summary Of Marking Books: The Eternal Textbook

Marking Books; the Eternal Textbook
Dr. Adler once wrote an article that would be very useful to students for their near future on having a better understanding of their readings. The article “How to Mark a Book” published in 1941 is still of some use to studious persons. Marking a book is one of the many ways someone can have a better understanding of what they read. Writing notes and questions popping through one’s mind whilst reading an article on atomic fusion or the new IPhone or Samsung device will help in the engraving into the mind what the article was really about, it really is the best understanding one can get as far as reading could go. Dr. Adler who states “marking up a book is not an act of mutilation but of love” (Adler, 1) is correct, marking a book is one’s eternal textbook in which people use to gain better understandings of topics and things.
It is not very nice if it is borrowed. There are two ways to own a book, the first is “the property right…paying for it” and the second is by “making yourself a part of it by writing in it” (Adler, 1). One who truly reads and comprehends what they are reading has written on their book. Writing the questions that go through the mind as one reads is good reading or as Dr. Adler says “the pages are filled with notes…you have read actively” (Adler, 2). Notes are the most important thing in marking a book. It points out certain details infused within a paragraph that has stood out to the reader or is something that would need to be remembered for future use. When going over the notes for studying the reader has already shortened the lessons by writing short summaries or important facts on the