tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152270.post110893517729534547..comments2024-03-26T12:23:35.307-05:00Comments on The Buck Stops Here: Underlining BooksStuart Buckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05731724396708879386noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152270.post-1109027397636436942005-02-21T17:09:00.000-06:002005-02-21T17:09:00.000-06:00Good point!Good point!Stuart Buckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05731724396708879386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152270.post-1109018692049822992005-02-21T14:44:00.000-06:002005-02-21T14:44:00.000-06:00Anonymous2, that's a good point. I know that the b...Anonymous2, that's a good point. I know that the books that I have underlined heavily in are precious to me. Not only is the book one that I want to keep, but I underlined in it for a reason: I like to go back through and easily find and examine particularly notable parts. I wouldn't want a fresh, clean copy of the book without my underlinings, since I put them there for a reason. So a book with my underlinings would hold a "sentimentality" of sorts. It is personalized to me.<br /><br />Anonymous1Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152270.post-1109016429989893232005-02-21T14:07:00.000-06:002005-02-21T14:07:00.000-06:00Perhaps it means that people rarely sell books tha...Perhaps it means that people rarely sell books that they care enough to finish and underline.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152270.post-1109012562677915762005-02-21T13:02:00.000-06:002005-02-21T13:02:00.000-06:00I think that a lot of books don't say nearly as mu...I think that a lot of books don't say nearly as much as they have in word count. Authors do often put most of the main thoughts they have in the first part, to draw readers in, then they put a lot more book that says the same thing, in order to justify a higher price. Really good books are good throughout.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152270.post-1108962637117210142005-02-20T23:10:00.000-06:002005-02-20T23:10:00.000-06:00Authors OUGHT to put all of their important or mem...<I>Authors OUGHT to put all of their important or memorable points in the first two chapters, because hardly anyone reads past that point anyway.</I>Most authors already do this, since it's understood that book reviewers only read the first two chapters. I've read this in several reliable places, although a quick Google search doesn't provide me any cites.Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05271175695509162818noreply@blogger.com