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Poll: Do you highlight books while you read?

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August 04, 2017, 11:18 AM
vinnybass
Poll: Do you highlight books while you read?
Just wondering. I do it regularly. I developed the habit whilst studying technical books, and it's carried over to include passages in novels & such I'll likely refer back to.Do you highlight passages in the books you're reading?Blasphemy! Thou shan't desecrate the leaves of thine tomesDuh, how else am I going to remember the good stuff?Highlighter? Izzat a Bic for bongs?


"We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities."
August 04, 2017, 11:21 AM
Icabod
As most of the books I read are on Kindle or iPad, using a highliter isn't pertinent. With an electronic book you can highlife pages, plus see what others have highlited.
Then you can undo the highlite passage at any time.


“ The work of destruction is quick, easy and exhilarating; the work of creation is slow, laborious and dull.
August 04, 2017, 11:23 AM
cheesegrits
I underline or highlight material I'm learning or reading for work. I don't do that in books I'm reading for pleasure.
August 04, 2017, 11:26 AM
Pilken
I was taught, when trying to LEARN from a book, to use "active reading techniques". A highlighter, a notebook, and a dictionary were needed to "actively" read a book. Imagine the book as a lecture you'd hear in a lecture hall. Highlight the things that strike you as important, take notes to put things in "your own words" and look up any words that you are unsure of the meaning of (or words that might have double meanings). A smartphone is all I need now to take notes and look things up, but a highlighter is still necessary.

If I'm reading for pleasure. . . I skip all of this.


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August 04, 2017, 11:27 AM
Deqlyn
yes in both ebooks and regular


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August 04, 2017, 11:33 AM
zoom6zoom
yeah, but now I have this yellow crap all over my screen.



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August 04, 2017, 11:56 AM
V-Tail
quote:
Originally posted by zoom6zoom:
yeah, but now I have this yellow crap all over my screen.
Smile


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August 04, 2017, 11:57 AM
Gustofer
I've been known to dog-ear pages with passages that strike me, but no highlighting.


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August 04, 2017, 12:00 PM
sigfreund
If it’s a book that has stuff I might want to refer back to, I write the page and a brief description of the passage on a sticky note at the front of the book. That way I can find what I’m looking for without having to page through everything to find a highlighted line and then decide if it’s the one I want.

I also hate to deface books.

What amuses me is to run across something like a textbook with entire pages highlighted: “Uh … fellas, if you’re highlighting everything, you’re emphasizing nothing.”



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August 04, 2017, 12:13 PM
arfmel
Vandalism
August 04, 2017, 12:29 PM
flesheatingvirus
Winter will come for you if you deface my books. Your children and your childrens' children will suffer for it. For the night is dark and full of terrors, mainly pissed off anal retentive bibliophiles.

HELL....NO.

If you must, make notes on a post-it on the inside of the front cover.


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August 04, 2017, 12:34 PM
oldRoger
I voted yes because I do highlight and make notes on endpages but this is entirely dependent on the type of book.
Books that I consider reference material usually are highlighted, underlined, and noted.
August 04, 2017, 12:40 PM
vinnybass
Just to be clear...I'm talking about my own books, for my own use. I keep them nice & straight otherwise, & don't dog ear, but for me the highlight becomes part of the book.


"We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities."
August 04, 2017, 12:41 PM
henryarnaud
Nope. I find it distracting. If I need to study material, I use a notebook and write down what I need to know in my own words.


"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts." Sherlock Holmes
August 04, 2017, 12:49 PM
Il Cattivo
No. It brings back bad memories of used textbooks in college and used books that I always wanted a copy of and that I thought were pristine.

Ugh. If I ever find that idiot who put that ONE highlighter mark in my copy of "Border Wars Of Texas", I'm gonna brain them. If I can find their brain.
August 04, 2017, 12:51 PM
parabellum
No, I do not deface books.


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August 04, 2017, 12:56 PM
P220 Smudge
quote:
Originally posted by flesheatingvirus:
Winter will come for you if you deface my books. Your children and your childrens' children will suffer for it. For the night is dark and full of terrors, mainly pissed off anal retentive bibliophiles.

HELL....NO.

If you must, make notes on a post-it on the inside of the front cover.


Well said.


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August 04, 2017, 01:05 PM
Spokane228
Kindle guy here. So yes. In all kinds of fancy colors (even ones I check out from the library Big Grin) Plus I can send annotations to myself.
August 04, 2017, 03:25 PM
jaaron11
In my Bible or reference books for work, absolutely. In novels or "fun" books, no.


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August 04, 2017, 03:39 PM
olfuzzy
quote:
Originally posted by sigfreund:
If it’s a book that has stuff I might want to refer back to, I write the page and a brief description of the passage on a sticky note at the front of the book. That way I can find what I’m looking for without having to page through everything to find a highlighted line and then decide if it’s the one I want.

I also hate to deface books.
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This is what I do with books and some magazines.