Finally finished the third volume of Capital. Not going to lie, it was a challenge and quite a journey, but well worth it. Rip to the many, many highlighters that gave their lives for this endeavor.
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this post was submitted on 22 Jul 2024
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I have no idea what people do to the spines of their books to where they're all fucked up when they finish with them. All the wear on these is just from toting them around with me everywhere
I fold them in half when I read. But I'm abusive and have needed to glue pages back in before lol
Tbf, it depends on the publisher. I've never had to glue in pages from Zone Books for example. Some publishers really cheap out on binding
Easy, with these same books use whatever I can find as a bookmark (or more than one rando thin thing) while I hunt down whatever I was typing or scrawling notes on, maybe if said thing was a 2000s laptop slap it down on the book while I reflect on my notes. Then another good one is jumping from page whatever to the references to see the full context and then taking note on that, then flipping back, paper books hate that.
I crack the hell out of the spine before reading cause it keeps the book open easier
Apparently there are some people who tear out a page when they're done reading it
I'm not saying that there's a book hell, but I am saying that you would definitely go there for that
Goddamn, I was coming here to call you a blasphemer for defacing your books with highlighting but that is some ninth circle shit.
Marking up books is good and everyone should do it when reading. Fiction and non fiction. You're actively engaging with the material. Of course unless it's a shared book or ya just don't want to
I get why people do it, especially for dense texts like these, but to me it’d be like hard-coding a commentary track from someone who hasn’t seen the full movie.
I think that’s part of the fun. You go back and read and see what you missed or realize you still don’t understand a concept or learn that you now understand and want to dig deeper. If now you understand and find the commentary unhelpful you erase.
I don't generally highlight when I'm reading for my own edification, but I can't read something dense like this without doing so. It just helps me slow down and think about what is actually important in what I'm reading
My Volume I is littered with post-it notes that stop abruptly after Chapter 10.
That's where you entered THE ZONE presumably
Oh yeah. Smooth sailing from there until the end. That's the ticket!
That is incredibly strange behavior. Books ain't cheap and the library really won't approve of it.
That's just.. A lot of effort for no real benefit.
Do that but use every page to roll a joint and try to finish capital