/lit/ - Literature

>>19629534
To be a prententious faggot

>>19629534
helps comprehension and memory

>>19629552
helps jerking yourself off

>>19629534
I only highlight sentences that concisely encompass the idea that the author is trying to convey. It keeps you focused and it makes it really easy to go back and quickly skim through a text. I only do it for philosophy books and scientific articles. I never do it with fiction.

>>19629592
This

>>19629548
>>19629560
>filtered by 'how to read a book'
>being this new

>>19629534
So when you re-read it you have notes to remind you of important things you noticed the first time through.
You do re-read books, right anon?

>>19629534
its always brainlet women who do this they highlight a sentence then put why on the margins just embarrassing i understand now why we didn't let them read in previous eras

>>19629534
Memory

>>19630099
“The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book.“

It's disgusting to mark up a book like that. I usually make notes on interesting passages using post-it notes. I never actually write in the book.

>>19629534
>underlining words and sentences
I don't like it because I don't trust myself to necessarily find the most important sections at my first reading. Even if I did I still think it looks ugly and might be an annoyance to other readers.
>writing in the margins
I don't mind this since the original text remains unchanged and the notes can easily be ignored.

>>19629534
I wanted to keep notes somehow without defacing the text so i bought pic related and stuck them to the bottom of the page so it wouldn't obstruct the letters

>>19629534
It helps you remember your thoughts when you first read it.

>>19629534
It’s fun

>>19629534
there are actually psych studies that show this stuff is useless. i never started doing it because even as a kid/teenager i could tell it was frivolous busywork. despite this normies keep doing it for some reason

Forces you to think more actively about the text, lets you find passages more easily for reference, a fun time capsule of your readthrough. I only did it when I was in school, but I like looking back at those books now

>>19629534
It's okay if it's
>Summarizing a very complex statement
>Writing your thoughts
>Connecting it to previous sections that clarify meaning
>Just establishing that this is an important sentence/paragraph if you want to revisit it later
>Referencing a work that has relevance to the section
Otherwise, it's mega-distracting and a waste of time and energy.
I just got a used copy of Plato's Dialogues that has a ton of the margins filled with like five-word summaries of very obvious information. Like he'll say "And now I'll talk about X" and the note will say "Plato discusses X", like yes retard I read the fucking sentence.