Comments on: [Immersion] Reading Tip: Tear Up The Book If You Love Your Mind

By: Luke

Luke — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 15:17:26 +0000

I just took a picture of a book page on my phone, I have it with me anyway and it’s easier without ruining the book so I can still re-read it later.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 01 Jun 2014 20:17:42 +0000

Interesting read. I do have one complaint though. Why in the hell do people try to copy Khatz’s style of writing? I enjoy Khatz’s style but for me, it is unique to him. For Tommy to take on that kind of style it just seems kind of lame. And while I think that Tommy’s advice was interesting and innovative, it was almost ruined by his “Khatzness.”

Just a tip from a fellow lover of this site. You may have something useful to say and it is absolutley your right to do this, but know that if you lame it up by copying Khatz’s style, then your message will be diminished (at least in my eyes, for whatever that’s worth). Yeah I know that was a run-on sentence like a mother fucker.

By: kimera

kimera — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 20:36:56 +0000

I was brought up to respect my books. And by “respect” I mean: underline, highlight, annotate, and write comments in the margins. (And then pick them up years later and be able to actually find that quote I was looking for.) It makes me sad when I see students NOT doing this to their own textbooks.

One possible compromise is to find stories/articles online and print them out. Then you have both the “pretty” digital original and the useful annotated printout.

( IMO, though, the main down side of actually tearing up a book is that if you need to flip to a previous chapter or the index you won’t have it with you. But it’s a good idea for short stories or essay collections which can be broken into independent sections.)

By: Just passing by

Just passing by — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 14:46:50 +0000

Photocopiers, guys. That’s what they’re there for.
If you have a good camera phone, you can also photograph some pages and take them along with you.

By: hongchang

hongchang — Fri, 15 Nov 2013 05:04:16 +0000

this reminds me of a ancient chinese saying

“读书破万卷，下笔如有神”

literally means “studying so hard until 10000 volumes are torn up, will be able to write very well”

By: Petra

Petra — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 14:48:06 +0000

Funny article 🙂

By: Matfaylong

Matfaylong — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 01:09:46 +0000

Ha, nice conversation. I myself get free Chinese study aids from …. wait for it … wait…. Free small business flyers! When people at crowded intersections hand out advertisements it doesn’t hurt to take one. It helped with my cell phone vocab! It’s also funny when people are amazed you even stopped!

By: Tom P

Tom P — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 18:48:39 +0000

I photocopy pages and carry those with me.

By: 魔法少女☆かなたん

魔法少女☆かなたん — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 13:03:38 +0000

Well, I think the reason pages are bound together in order to begin with is so you can find them again, in the original. There are advantages to keeping them inside the original cover, as long as you actually open it.

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 06:11:38 +0000

Poppycock. Just write out the page, probably better for memory anyway, plus I lose scraps of paper, so this knowledge, my “favourite parts” will end up being lost forever because I’m a bumbling litterbug. At least until I buy a new copy. In short: Plagiarism good, denudation bad.

By: Ivy

Ivy — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 04:05:54 +0000

I just bought a non-fiction book from Kinokuniya the other day. I try to read it in between commutes, so I bring it everywhere with me. Since it’s quite a bit above my level, I had to draw all over it, highlight words I don’t know, and post-it the hell of it.

I felt really bad after looking at how ratty it’s become in just 2 weeks. I don’t usually treat my English books this way. But this post made me feel so much better. Thanks, Khatz.

By: ijp

ijp — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 22:28:50 +0000

er, you can always *copy* bits out

By: ijp

ijp — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 22:28:14 +0000

If you can’t bear to tear up a book, you can always bits out. Working through heisig (1,2,& 3) I would have lots of postit sized bits of paper in my pockets. Keywords/kanji/compounds/whatever.