[General] mark up a book

[vil]

Dear teachers,

Would you help me to write proper in English the interpretation of the expression in bold in the following sentence?

Why is marking up a book indispensable to reading?

I contend, quite bluntly, that marking up a book is not an act of mutilation but of love.

You shouldn't mark up a book which isn't yours.

mark something up = …annotate or correct text for printing, keying, or typesetting…; take down notes during reading a book (you write in it)

Thanks for your efforts.

Regards,

V

 

[TheParser]

Dear teachers,

Would you help me to write proper in English the interpretation of the expression in bold in the following sentence?

Why is marking up a book indispensable to reading?

I contend, quite bluntly, that marking up a book is not an act of mutilation but of love.

You shouldn't mark up a book which isn't yours.

mark something up = …annotate or correct text for printing, keying, or typesetting…; take down notes during reading a book (you write in it)

Thanks for your efforts.

Regards,

V

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Vil,


(1) I believe that all your sentences are great.

(2) Many of my favorite books are marked up -- in ink! I have

learned the hard way to mark them up only in pencil.

Then I can erase certain notes that later prove incorrect.

(3) I read somewhere that if one doesn't mark up a book (or even

a newspaper),

s/he is not really reading it!!!

(4) As they say: context is everything. For example, I believe that

"mark up" would have a different meaning in:

That bookstore has lost a lot of business because it recently

marked up all books by 25%. = raised the prices. They had better

mark down all their books!!!


***** NOT A TEACHER *****