I don't usually write in my books, but I'm always tempted to take out my pen when I read one of these metaphors.
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Replying to @Megillus @CheshireOcelot
I wish I had a little booklet with all of them.
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Replying to @Megillus
I do typically mark these in the margins of my book, or highlight them in an ebook. I know some people will transfer their notes to, say, Evernote, but I’ve never tried that.
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Replying to @CheshireOcelot @Megillus
Pourquoi pas les deux? A book of commonplaces for the quotations and a big pointing hand in the margin, mediæval-style.
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Contrarian take: better to read Seneca or w/e without underlining/notes, and then go to an online source of quotations and copy-paste saves time and in many of these authors once you start underlining bons mots you never stop
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Sometimes I think I'd like to have two copies of every book. One to keep pure, and another to fill with notes, arrows, and lines. But this is not a reasonable approach.
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aktually it is very reasonable books are like condoms, they should be used and then replaced
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Alas, my funds are limited, and many a good book costs more than it could.
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true true but Oxford classics are 10-15, if choices are (a) not marking up as noob (b) reading noob scribbles for rest of life, then option c is pretty cheap
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(tangent: always amazed students spending ~10k on class and devoting, at least hypothetically, ~100+ hours are so eager to save ten, twenty bucks by buying beat-up copy of outdated translation)
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