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I highlight in my e-reader, but still prefer to make the notes in the physical book.

Because I often summarize a book in a later document, I have a whole system for note taking. For example, I mark with special symbols in the margin all references to books, quotes, websites, etc. I mark important points and any Aha moments.

If the author is making a series of points or explicitly says something like, "There are five ways to..." then I underline the topic and then dash-underline and number all of the items. I also put circles around definition of terms.

So this system works best with physical books. My dilemma is that I don't really want all of these sitting on shelves or buried within boxes beneath the stairs. I would rather keep the majority of my books in the cloud.

While the e-reader limits my ability to do my note taking, I am now resigned to adapt my methods to accommodate the new technology.

I read, Synthesize, abstract, highlight, annotate and comment mainly because It makes the reading experience that much richer and useful.

Joseph. wrote: "I read, Synthesize, abstract, highlight, annotate and comment mainly because It makes the reading experience that much richer and useful."

That is a great attitude with which to approach reading. Thanks for sharing.

I do highlight sometimes, but only when there is something I want to share with someone and need a way to find the passage again.

I like to highlight words I've never come across and had to lookup with Define (another great tool), like "maladroitly", or "curmudgeon"... I find I do this a lot with Brandon Sanderson's books :-)

I may take notes and jot down passages and page numbers, but I don't highlight.

maybe for a text book I would but not for fiction. Since I'm no longer in school, I rarely read textbooks.

I really like to highlight when I find a passage I really like. I use the quotes in reviews or it allows me to find my favorite parts to reread fast!

I will highlight every once in a while when I find a quote I wish to keep.

I've just starting doing this recently. It helps me find points that I want for when I review the book after reading. There are also just some books that have such beautiful passages, that I just feel like it needs to be noted.

I would do this in my favorite hard copy books as well but haven't in a while (I've been going to the library more than purchasing lately).

Only when reading dull textbooks- and it's just to keep me awake. It also helps tell easily just where I left off~

I only highlight my favorite quotes. Kindle has a lovely feature that puts them all together in "My Clips," so it's nice to go back and read the best excerpts together.

I highlight all the time when i'm reading nonfiction. I hardly ever highlight fiction.

I highlight if I find a passage that's particularly well-written.

I find eReader highlighting to be awkward. Sometimes it is hard to select just words I want to highlight. In real books, I write notes and highlight. It brings me pleasure to go back to see what I thought when I read the book the last time. The eReader tools are quite sterile in comparison to what I can do with a real book.

I facilitate a book club so when I read on my Kindle, I absolutely have to highlight. It took some getting used to but now I'm as comfortable as though it were a physical book with yellow sticky notes attached.

I read exclusively on my e-reader now and never highlight although I could. I suppose I just never thought of highlighting and adding a note like I would on a physical page.

Only in non fictional books that I read in order to achieve something vs. to be entertained...

yes I need to read highlight before deeply reading it.Highlight give some general reading.

So I can remember all the awesome (or glaringly bad) parts! I do it in real books, too, just in sticky note form. :D

It depends... I only highlight academic books. I guess it's a habit thinking that I'm going to need the information for some exam later on... :)

I will occasionally highlight quotes from poetry or non-fiction, but never in fiction.

I highlight things that I want to talk about in my reviews after I'm done reading ^-^

I love to highlight and usually the passages that mean something to me, are funny and or I want to use in my weekly article. Love the ability to highlight with my Kindle but if reading a book I will use paperclips and then make photocopies of the page.

If I need to remind myself of stuff (ie research or reviews) then I highlight the crap out of a book as well as keep notes in the text. I also mark typos!!! :)

Highlighting is awesome.

I don't highlight...I get all my ebooks (well over a hundred so far) from the public library. The books "expire" in two or three weeks, so there would be little reason or opportunity to review any highlighted passages even if I wished to.

As someone above commented, I never highlight in books. What I may do to show an important point or sentence, is to make a line with a pencil to something noteworthy or important. For me books are special and not to be marked up unless absolutely necessary. If I needed something for an essay or wanted to remember it for a test, I'd make notes separately on paper with book title, etc. That usually made for more compact search territory. And typos, grammar and vocabulary mistakes get corrected. I get very annoyed with those. That's a bad habit of language teachers, I guess.

I am writer. I highlight those sentences that are constructed differently and in a way shows the author's hold over the language.

Mary-Ann wrote: "I don't highlight...I get all my ebooks (well over a hundred so far) from the public library. The books "expire" in two or three weeks, so there would be little reason or opportunity to review any..."

A lot of my e-books I get from the library, and I know on my Kindle, I have a category titled My Clippings, and in there are the scenes and things that I've highlighted. Even though the books have expired and been removed from my device at the time of expiration - I can still re-read those passages that I've highlighted. Including page number references.

I don't highlight but I do take handwritten or digital notes.

I rarely highlight - on occasion, if I see a great quote, I will highlight.

I highlight words that I want to remember and I also highlight some passages so that if I write a review, I'll have some... backup? :)

Interestingly, I don't highlight fiction, though it didn't occur to me to highlight memorable quotes. Nonfiction is another story entirely. My highlighter is my best friend. They're all over my home and my office, along with mechanical pencils. Margins are for writing in!

I highlight depending on what kind of book im reading.

Yes but only when I'm editing.

Cheers

MTM

I love it when I'm on my Kindle and there's a line from the book which is super amazing (usually extremely funny) and it's underlined with a dotted gray line with the caption stating something like: 823 highlighters.

Yes, I like to highlight my favorite quotes of the book

I do like to highlight, but I find myself preferring old fashioned paper books when possible.

I enjoy my reading, although sometimes I need to re-open some pages to remind me. I used to highlight in my school books, but I didn't for other books. I prefer to write in another book than highlight it.

Highlighting is really helpful for annotating and when I write book reports all I have to do is use the things I highlighted as quotes,

I highlight a lot with my comments and questions. I also proofread and keep correcting spellings and phrases.
It is a pleasure to read highlighted portions after finishing the book.

wally wrote: "i highlight when i am enlightened & baffled....often."
Cute :-)

No, I rarely if ever highlight.

I highlight in my Bible and self help books.

I like highlighting the text. The ones I highlight are those that gave me the chills when reading them. :)

I enjoy highlighting on my e-reader that way I can easily search for certain terms or passages I found interesting, and jump right back to them quickly and easily. I also sometimes take down important notes and thoughts in my handy Moleskine Reporter.

I only really use highlight if I'm using it for research. For the most part, I don't use the highlight feature while reading books for pleasure.

No, never do..

Where is the "I sometimes highlight" option?