@boomerang,
boomerang wrote:Thank you!!
At first the price made me wobble but then I saw that the used copies were really inexpensive. I'll be ordering that. It's certainly okay if it's something we need to explore together (I could use a better understanding of history) or something that he has to grow into.
He has a lot of books that he revisits over years.
I developed a system for my use as a student (and thereafter)
of marking significant text books, for future reference.
It began with simple underlining significant text,
or applying a vertical line to several lines of valuable text.
This evolved into a hierarchy of values,
including a parenthesis
(,
a square bracket
[ , a French brace
{ with stars, all
color coded.
It was good for law school, preparing for tests.
For instance, I remember a statute that it took me
24 hours to read and
color up. My next reading thereof
probably took about 10 hours; the 3rd reading took about
an hour and a half, the key being to mark only the
operative text, omitting extraneous matter.
plenty of handwritten marginalia
David
