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@eryn What's sadfunny is that I see it on eBay for about 50% more than our local bookstore is offering it (brand new). :blobcatthinking:
Let me know if nothing else turns up.
Edit: Okay, they apparently don't have it in stock and may not be able to restock it ("hard to find, give us a call"). I guess that explains eBay.
@woozle yeah, my local bookshop doesn't even have a listing for the ISBN.
There are other books, but I've liked what I could ingest of the digital one, but not being able to flip back and forth easily between past concepts and current reading is an absolute pain that slows me down so much I can't get past the frustration, yaknow?
@eryn I've never understood writing in books... I always feel like they are too sacred to desecrate. And what if it turns out to be wrong and there's not enough space to correct it? Crossed out stuff? Yuck. I just couldn't handle it
@lens_r well, unless I'm in dire straits, I prefer to write in pencil with a couple colours of highlighter at hand if I'm lucky.
I'm a kinesthetic learner more than visual or auditory, so if it's wrong, we've got erasers. From underlines to connecting with previous concepts (or ones not mentioned), corrections of the printed text and emphasis for foundational or critical contexts, testing the robustness of the text or attempting to prompt curiosity in future readers...
...there's a lot of reasons I do it, and if crossing something out later is the worst of my possible sins, I'll risk that for the very real benefit it brings me to be able to flip to a well-marked page and find the concept nearly instantly, even a decade or more later when I need to refresh myself on a topic.
Everybody learns differently, I'm curious how you retain the information, if it's just words on a page when you read without an interactive / kinesthetic element.
@eryn so, I definitely take notes and write stuff down and pontificate on portions of paragraphs on the pages I'm reading; but these documents are separate from the source material. Often, I go through a couple iterations of a page before adding it to the pile of "finished" pages, of which I can read through to quickly re-form my knowledge base on the subject.