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Originally Posted by ODelphi
User's highlights are for the benefit of publishers. :-) Do you know why? User remembers the book better. He's talking more about the book. He shows the book to his friends. He shares highligts with his friends from internet. That is, user advertises the book. Moreover, he does it free.
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Hmmm. Interesting thought there. Are you saying that if someone doesn't highlight their books than they don't talk about books or recommend their books to others?
Personally I don't highlight but yet I do remember what I read and I do recommend or not recommend books to others. I know many, many others that do too.
Highlighting and recommending do not go hand in hand.
Now I will give you this, if I have to write a book report taking notes on the book was a help. Except for the fact that I had to use a notebook or notebook paper to take notes on because marking in textbooks or library books was frowned upon and the student could be fine.
Except in one case, and that was religion class. We had been given a specific bible for that purpose. I still have that particular book.
Reading for pleasure, it is not important. People will either talk about what they are reading or they won't.
There is an entire forum here dedicated to "reading recommendations". You might find one or two books there. There is also a forum dedicated to deals on ebooks. Anyone can read the forums. All members here can post in those forums.
No highlighting required.