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.
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