I read this blog (linked below) in the Guardian, and I found it oddly comforting. I tend to read with a pencil in hand. Not always, but very often. I find that the better the book, the more I require a writing tool.
But I have also found that some people consider writing in books (and we are talking about books that you own, of course; not those a friend has lent to you or that you got from the library) a heresy on par with burning them.
I love finding writing in books as well, which is probably why I have kept up the habit despite the frequent disapproval from others. Books have histories, and if I am part of that history, I do not see how my making that visible detracts from the book at all.
Your thoughts?
I refuse to write in books that I'm reading for enjoyment. I also rarely write in textbooks. Writing in textbooks makes them worth less when you sell them back to the school. When I find something worth noting that's when I pull out a NOTE book. That's what they are for after all.
Kirk: Spock, you want to know something? Everybody’s human.
Spock: I find that remark…insulting.
Spock: I find that remark…insulting.
Do you read with a pencil in hand?
- 24/06/2011 01:04:13 PM
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I'll add notes in the margins of textbooks but not fiction or anything I read for enjoyment
- 24/06/2011 01:49:20 PM
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I can't stand non-mechanical pencils anymore.
- 24/06/2011 02:08:02 PM
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I actually really enjoy one or the other...for different tasks and reasons
- 24/06/2011 02:39:13 PM
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Never.
- 24/06/2011 02:05:40 PM
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i haven't touched a pencil with intent since a drawing class ages ago.
- 24/06/2011 04:36:13 PM
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Huh
- 26/06/2011 09:16:47 PM
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it's interesting, i like the idea of the history, but, i don't like it when it's my book.. i hoard. *NM*
- 27/06/2011 04:55:14 PM
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I used to edit a literary magazine, so I would always be folding corners of pages
- 24/06/2011 06:17:44 PM
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