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⌈ Secret Post #6269 ⌋

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Do you ever highlight, take notes, or just generally write in books you are reading?

[(Anonymous)]

Passing curiosity. If so, what kind of things do you most often highlight or take notes of when reading?

Re: Do you ever highlight, take notes, or just generally write in books you are reading?

[(Anonymous)]

With nonfiction, definitely.

I both take notes and underline/bracket sections that stick out or that I find important. I've also been known to write brief impressions in the margins.

Re: Do you ever highlight, take notes, or just generally write in books you are reading?

[(Anonymous)]

I do in my textbooks but never in any other physical copies. I may write a note on a scrap of paper and use it as that book’s forever bookmark.
I mostly read digital copies now and I’m the Highlight Queen on my Kindle. I love that I can hide or even erase them if I want, but the best thing is being able to browse or search my whole library for things. That way I don’t have to remember where exactly I read it in order to find it again.

Re: Do you ever highlight, take notes, or just generally write in books you are reading?

[(Anonymous)]

No.

I didn't get to actually own many books growing up so writing in books or doing anything to damage books is something I don't do.

Re: Do you ever highlight, take notes, or just generally write in books you are reading?

[(Anonymous)]

No. I still have the mindset of "you may have to resell this someday, keep it in as prostine condition as possible."

Re: Do you ever highlight, take notes, or just generally write in books you are reading?

[(Anonymous)]

I'll do this with books I plan to review publicly.

Re: Do you ever highlight, take notes, or just generally write in books you are reading?

[(Anonymous)]

I have like... one nonfiction book I started highlighting in and then I lost track of the highlighter I was using and didn't want to suddenly switch colors so I never finished the book.

With fiction, what I do is... well, I tend to take a picture of the page with my phone and then transfer lines that strike me down later in my commonplace book-- it's a mix of lines that are Important, where I want to track things I think might be foreshadowing and then see if I'm right, pore back over them with full knowledge of what they were leading to. Other times it's lines I wish I'd written, where I just want to be able to go back and read them, whether it's especially funny or moving or just really good description/character work. I'm trying to really get into close reading as a guy whose memory is shit. Like, yeah, I'm reading the books I read for fun, as an adult, but I *want* to study good writing, and enjoyable writing, as both a reader and a writer!

One book I haven't transferred all my notes about, I wound up basically snapping pictures of every single scene a particular character was in because I knew something was up with them, and I was still surprised by the reveal of what that thing was, but once I got to that point, I was really happy that I had known to pay attention to them because now I could easily go back and re-read everything setting that reveal up! And it's just really fun for me.