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Am I the only one here who highlights, underlines, and writes furiously in the margins? I don't know how you can process a text or technical book without being
by joeclark77 13y ago
Am I the only one here who highlights, underlines, and writes furiously in the margins? I don't know how you can process a text or technical book without being able to touch it.
- arjie 13y agoOne would expect that digital formats are more conducive to this. You can theoretically cross-reference and amend notes and you are not constrained by the margin. Perhaps Fermat's Last Theorem may have been proved centuries earlier if he had had access to a digital book reader.
- Jtsummers 13y agoI did in language courses, but not in others. For math/CS courses I've found old books with dozens of pages of engineering paper stuffed in them, however. Probably the same sort of content you write in the margins. Paperbacks also lended themselves better to making notes within the text for me, but that was a psychological block (expensive hardback? keep it pristine! cheap paperback? meh, who cares?). I'm mostly over that now.