Joel Miller is encouraging his readers to write in their books, especially the nonfiction. It will help their memory. It will be personally revelatory. It will lead to original verbages. And stuff.

I agree, and I’d like to thank my college English professor, Richard Cornelius, for encouraging me to go easy on these markings. A simple star, check, or v-mark in the margin is better than underlining a few lines. Using a notebook is probably better than writing comments in the margins too, but I don’t usually argue with writers in the margins of their books.

What marks do you make in your books?