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Originally Posted by GlenBarrington
Thanks, this is interesting! And informative.
I'm comforted to know that this isn't a forum of people looking for a message from God hidden in the latest James Patterson novel!
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You mean there's not one in there? Drat!
Maybe I was a student too long, but I find it helpful and satisfying to make notes about what I read - otherwise I feel like I'm likely to miss something important or forget it all soon after I've read it. If I'm reading a pbook, I mark unknown or unusual words or phrases, ideas that the author or character had (or that came to my mind while reading) that I want to think about later, similarities or differences from other things I've read either in this book or elsewhere, or just anything I want to remember later. I don't do this with every book. For many, I hardly make a mark while for many others, I'm junking up every page. It makes little difference whether it's fiction or nonfiction. I picked Jacob Bronowski's
The Ascent of Man off my shelf for the first time in about 35 years and found three or four marks per page throughout the book plus several loose pages of thoughts that I stuck in it. I had several nice evenings rereading both the book and all my annotations. Muriel Burberry's
The Elegance of the Hedgehog is a recent fictional work that I have also junked up a lot and expect to enjoy rereading soon with all my notes and all the other books I'll end up looking at as I reflect on all those thoughts.
With my Sony, I'm crippled and have to make notes on a pad that I usually keep with the Reader. I have no way to attach those notes to the ebook and this annoys me a lot. I hope to fix that with my next ebook reader.