On the train on Thursday evening, when I went for a drink in Hampstead, the young lady next to me was highlighting texts in her bible with a pink fluorescent market pen.
In my view to deface any book in such a way is sacrilege.
April 17, 2011 - Posted by AnonW | World | Books, Religion
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What this blog will eventually be about I do not know.
But it will be about how I’m coping with the loss of my wife and son to cancer in recent years and how I manage with being a coeliac and recovering from a stroke. It will be about travel, sport, engineering, food, art, computers, large projects and London, that are some of the passions that fill my life.
And hopefully, it will get rid of the lonely times, from which I still suffer.
Why Anonymous? That’s how you feel at times.
The Anonymous Widower
Different books have different purposes. My Bible is a working document,when I read a passage which means something relevant to me at that time, I note that in the margin. I use different coloured highlighter pens to mark different types of things. I have always done that with text books as well when I have been on training courses, or at uni. Writing page and line numbers isnt as helpful to me, especially not in the Bible. There are few Christians who dont annotate their Bibles. It is the content which matters, not the actual physical book. I also now have various Bible translations on my iPad, for in Bible Study groups etc. They are now annotated as well!
Comment by liz | April 17, 2011 |
Making comments on an iPad or an associated notebook is fine, but I was brought up to not write in books, as to my father, who was a printer, every book was an individual work of art. You wouldn’t write on a painting, so why write in a book?
Comment by AnonW | April 17, 2011 |
As I say, different books have different purposes. There books I annotate, and books I dont and would be horrified if anyone else did. I have some very old books which really are works of art, modern mass produced text books and Bibles and other working books are to me very different. YOu will not convince me otherwise.
Comment by liz | April 17, 2011 |
When I was doing Religious Studies A Level, I marked passages within to aid study etc.
Comment by YellowBlood | April 18, 2011 |