Adler has well deserved and noted credibility in his essay about how to mark a book. His wording is very precise and to the point, yet easy to understand. Bringing in phrases such as: ‘false reverence for the paper’(p1), ‘possess the beauty’(p1), ‘staking and claim’(p1), and ‘fancy thinking’(p3), work at the audience in the way that brings them around to the idea that marking a book is a good thing, instead of a bad thing. He also talks about ‘the world’s greatest books’ can be obtained ‘at less than a dollar’ (p1). Saying this is to his credit because of his vast and knowledge of what he knows to be the great books of this time. He has taken the time to study and observe three different kinds of book owners. Each owner reads in their
