Notation

[SMM]

Whilst reading paperback copies of books, there are times when a comparison or analogy from experience/other things read comes to mind. I have wondered about notating in pencil or highlighting certain concepts, usually upon re-reading.

Does anyone else use these methods or some way of notating [i.e. stickypads] whilst/after reading?
Another was speed reading then writing them on a separate sheet.

 

[Mal7]

Presumably the purpose of notating or highlighting some pages might be so you can come back to those passages again in the future.

Alternatively, you might never revisit those passages, but the act of notating them at the time of reading might nonetheless make for a more active, reflective or involved process of reading the book.

One way I have seen books marked-up by readers is for certain pages throughout the book to have underlining or marginal comments, while at the same time the reader also makes a short index of the pages on which they have left marginalia on the blank endpaper of the book, e.g.:

p. 131 - giant cat
p. 456 - c.f. Nostradamus
P. 457
P. 459 - Baloney!

Another option might be to have a separate notebook in which you copy whole passages from other books that you find of particular interest, citing where they came from.

 

[mabar]

Does anyone else use these methods or some way of notating [i.e. stickypads] whilst/after reading?

Yes, books as printed forum threads, articles, news etc… (for the purpose of being able to read them elsewhere without computer) are full of left, right, center, margin notes writtings, as symbols, arrows, underlines, rectangles, dates referenced to experiences related to what is going on in the thread etc … I also fold the page at one of the button left/right corners, and I write usually at the first page of the document (there can be several documents in one book wired format) the vocabulary that I will find later. Being english to spanish or concepts, definitions, etc … like the notes from above dyadic p.35/3c ;)

I read recently a note in a book from more that 10 years ago, an intersting book that, I do read from time to time, a some sort of oracle, when I feel gloom, I go to that book in order to ask it, opening the book randomly, what lesson is to be learned and coincidentially coincides (or perhaps I arrange on my mind to coincides) with what I am struggling. The book’s name is Manual of the Warrior of Light by Paulo Coelho


edit: nothing, my mouse is acting wired.

 

[SMM]

Presumably the purpose of notating or highlighting some pages might be so you can come back to those passages again in the future.

Alternatively, you might never revisit those passages, but the act of notating them at the time of reading might nonetheless make for a more active, reflective or involved process of reading the book.

Both of these reasons.

One way I have seen books marked-up by readers is for certain pages throughout the book to have underlining or marginal comments, while at the same time the reader also makes a short index of the pages on which they have left marginalia on the blank endpaper of the book, e.g.:

p. 131 - giant cat
p. 456 - c.f. Nostradamus
P. 457
P. 459 - Baloney!

Another option might be to have a separate notebook in which you copy whole passages from other books that you find of particular interest, citing where they came from.

The separate notebook or a blank sheet of paper with references to pages/lines were some of the ways I was considering. In the past I have quoted certain parts in journal writing though I feel a separate notebook is better suited in terms of space.

Does anyone else use these methods or some way of notating [i.e. stickypads] whilst/after reading?

Yes, books as printed forum threads, articles, news etc… (for the purpose of being able to read them elsewhere without computer) are full of left, right, center, margin notes writtings, as symbols, arrows, underlines, rectangles, dates referenced to experiences related to what is going on in the thread etc … I also fold the page at one of the button left/right corners, and I write usually at the first page of the document (there can be several documents in one book wired format) the vocabulary that I will find later. Being english to spanish or concepts, definitions, etc … like the notes from above dyadic p.35/3c ;)

I read recently a note in a book from more that 10 years ago, an intersting book that, I do read from time to time, a some sort of oracle, when I feel gloom, I go to that book in order to ask it, opening the book randomly, what lesson is to be learned and coincidentially coincides (or perhaps I arrange on my mind to coincides) with what I am struggling. The book’s name is Manual of the Warrior of Light by Paulo Coelho


edit: nothing, my mouse is acting wired.

I have a few printed forum threads I wanted to annotate in this way also! Found some notes I made for ISOTM a while back & this bought it to mind.
Checked out some of Manual of the Warrior of Light & those parts pretty funny & pertinent in a good way.

Thanks.