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Originally Posted by RWood
Neko's comments about the notational features is interesting as I have always been one that never marked up books. Even most of my college texts were unblemished. (I also never liked buying used textbooks that were marked or highlighted, maybe the person who sold the book failed the course and the highlights are all meaningless points and they missed the main thrust of the text.)
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That's the weird thing. I don't write in books either -- ever. Even if I mark the inside of the cover with my name, because I'm loaning a book out, I prefer to use light pencil. The closest I'll come to writing in a book is to put in a sticky note, which may or may not have a coment on it.
I do, however, write on photocopied articles, which is a lot of the reading material in my graduate classes, especially while researching for a paper. These days, professors often email these articles to us as PDF files, or we download PDFs from journal database services. I used to print them, use a heavy-duty 3-hole punch, put them in binders by class, and make notes on them, then I would have this ever-growing pile of binders of annotated printouts. That's why I looked for a used iLiad. (If I'd been just a bit more patient, I could have stayed with the eBw 1150, as it turns out, but I do like my iLiad, and I'm still hoping to somehow get the kind of research tools I really need onto the unit.)