In which I explain how and why to annotate your books with examples from my own collection.

For a pleasantly honest description of the challenges of slowing down while reading (and thus maybe a reason to annotate so thoroughly), check out @renee_angelica's video: [ Ссылка ]

Some great videos (in agreement and disagreement) on annotating books:
@anotherbibliophilereads with [ Ссылка ]
@saintdonoghue with [ Ссылка ]
@M-J with [ Ссылка ]
@materiagrix with [ Ссылка ] who also has a follow-up on the contentious issue of pen vs. pencil with [ Ссылка ]

To support the channel (thank you): [ Ссылка ]

Chapters:
00:00 Purpose of Marking Up Books
02:42 Limits of Highlighting
05:42 Detailed Annotations
15:38 On Annotating Fiction
18:16 Outro

The books discussed in this video (with Amazon links):
Behave by Robert Sapolsky: [ Ссылка ]
The History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell: [ Ссылка ]
The Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist: [ Ссылка ]
Reasons and Persons by Derek Parfit: [ Ссылка ]
The World by Simon Sebag Montefiore: [ Ссылка ]
A People's Tragedy by Orlando Figes: [ Ссылка ]
Our Oriental Heritage by Will Durant, which is the first part of the Story of Civilization series: [ Ссылка ]
The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker: [ Ссылка ]
The Dictionary of the History of Ideas, edited by Philip P. Wiener: [ Ссылка ]

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