The book is yours - Deepstash

The book is yours

Full ownership of a book only comes when you have made it a part of yourself, and the best way to make yourself a part of it— which comes to the same thing— is by writing in it.

Marking a book is literally an expression of your differences or your agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.

The book is yours and the only real objective is transferring the knowledge from the author to you.

141

927 reads

CURATED FROM

IDEAS CURATED BY

metacognitician

I am the developer of my life; I build its foundation and choose its contents.

The idea is part of this collection:

Survival Tips

Learn more about personaldevelopment with this collection

Basic survival skills

How to prioritize needs in survival situations

How to adapt to extreme situations

Related collections

Similar ideas to The book is yours

How to make a book your own

How to make a book your own

Asking a book questions as you read is not enough. You should also attempt to answer the questions with a pencil in hand. When you buy a book, you establish a property right in it. When you write in it, you develop full ownership of it.

Why you should write in your book:

How to mark a book

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.
  • Emph...

The importance of marking a book

The importance of marking a book

Why is marking a book indispensable to reading it? 

First, it keeps you awake, not merely conscious, but wide awake. 

Second, reading, if it is active, is thinking, and thinking tends to express itself in words, spoken or written. The person who says he knows what he thinks bu...

Read & Learn

20x Faster

without
deepstash

with
deepstash

with

deepstash

Personalized microlearning

100+ Learning Journeys

Access to 200,000+ ideas

Access to the mobile app

Unlimited idea saving

Unlimited history

Unlimited listening to ideas

Downloading & offline access

Supercharge your mind with one idea per day

Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.

Email

I agree to receive email updates