Why It’s Perfectly Okay to Write in Your Books

Lourdes D
4 min readMay 3, 2022

Educator and Philosopher Dr. Mortimer J. Adler explains how you can do it

Person using a green highlighter on a book.
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Imagine this: you are picking up an exciting book, and you plan on spending the afternoon reading it. But you open it, and there’s someone’s writing all over it.

Did you feel disappointed with all the writing, or did you look forward to reading the reader’s thoughts?


I like to mark and highlight sections…

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