Interesting Links for 30-09-2013
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andrewducker- Internet centralization is not a conspiracy
- Gorgeous photo of the ceiling of a local church
- Interesting in computers but fed up with being patronised? Here's the group for you.
- TV producers think boys won’t watch girl heroines. Turns out that’s not true.
- The perverse incentives of the pharmaceutical industry
- The End of Meat as We Know It
- I frequently highlight text while I'm reading it. I didn't realise it was common...
- Card sharp used infrared contact lenses in Cannes poker scam
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Date: 2013-09-30 03:52 pm (UTC)I was raised to believe that 'one should not mark books'. The innate preciousness of a book outweighed the possibilities of being able to highlight passages, even in books of utility where it might prove very useful to draw one's eye to the relevant text at short notice. It was a violation of value. Only bookmarks were acceptable.
University library books initially filled me with horror: ad hoc underlinings, paragraphs bracketed, margins be-noted. But I grew to understand and appreciate the markings and marginalia.
Even then, it is only recently, as I started growing my small library of ebooks, that I started electronically highlighting.
There is a little thrill in being the first person to highlight some resonating passage or sentence in some new text, and then finding a sort of validation when you later return and find others have highlighted the same.
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Date: 2013-09-30 08:58 pm (UTC)Yeah, I can totally see that. I get a kick out of seeing my links passed around, and I assume it's similar! :->