How to mark a book

When you are willing to engage with the book by writing in it, you pay the author the highest respect.

• Underline the important points.
• Draw vertical lines at the margin when a passage is too long to underline.
• Emphasise the most important statements with an asterisk.
• Put numbers in the margin to show a sequence of points made in the natural development of an argument.
• Put page numbers of other pages in the margin to show where else the author makes the same points.
• Circle keywords or phrases.
• Write your questions and answers in the margin or at the top or bottom of the pages.