I’ve said so far that I am not a fan of the highlighter. Highlighters allow you very quickly and easily to mark a text, but only by covering it with a bright color; and the very quickness and easiness of the process are inimical to the kind of responsiveness I’m recommending. (There’s something to Simic’s preference for the stub of a pencil and the intimacy with the page it enforces.) With a highlighter you can have a text marked before you’ve even had time to ask yourself why you’re marking it; and while you might be able to add a question mark or exclamation point in the margin, that will be
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I tend to agree but use a Color coding system when using a highlighter and post it notes that I explain in the front of the book.
