Do you highlight books or e-books?

[Sarah]

http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapte...

Kindle is tracking what people highlight post-purchase. I find that creepy.

I don't physically highlight books in my post-academic life, but if I like a quote I may post it on here.

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

I really don't like how Amazon can get into people's Kindles like that. I HATED how they deleted 1984 from people's Kindles without asking and without warning. That is so completely invasive and wrong!

[janine]

i don't highlight, ever, in books. i might use a pencil when i'm studying, but that's very rare.

[RandomAnthony]

Yeah, I'm getting more anti-Kindle every time I read a story like this.

I used to highlight a lot, with a pen, writing page numbers on the inner front cover and marking pages, but I get most of my books from the library now, so I stopped.

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

Glad to hear you refrain from marking up library books, RA.

[Ashley]

The only book I highlight in would be my bible.

[[deleted user]]

I highlight and scribble notes in my books a lot. One of the main reasons I dislike getting library books. Don't think they'd appreciate that a whole lot.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I haven't highlighted a book since college. I do often make small vertical lines in the margins - in pen or pencil if I own the book, in pencil if I don't. But I don't actually write stuff in the margins anymore, that pretty much stopped with college too. If I find a quote I want to keep a record of, I'll add it to my Booknotes file.

[Mary]

I recently read a book in which one of the characters was preoccupied with a dictionary of obscure words. So as I stumbled across these words, I would look them up and write the definitions in the margin or at the top of the page. Now I know words like "arctoid", "czigany", and "kalopsia" but seldom have a chance to use them in conversation.

[Sarah]

My friend John started all of his stories in college by picking an obscure word from the dictionary and building around it. He has three books out now, and I need a dictionary next to me for two of them.

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

I used to highlight in textbooks that I owned, but never in books that I read for enjoyment, and never in my Nook either.

Although I've been guilty of dog-earing pages before. I try not to do it in hardbacks, but paperbacks are fair game.

[Polstar]

That Kindle thing is uber-creepy. What on earth possesses them to do such a thing? I'd deliberately highlight obscure passages in the hope that they'd send the CIA or FBI (even though I'm in the UK) after me!

I'm afraid I do sometimes highlight books. Mainly non-fiction text books that I'm using with my classes - however - when I was teaching English I'd always have a copy of the text that we were reading as a class with important passages highlighted.

[Kristi]

Textbooks, absolutely.

[RandomAnthony]

I'm gettin' really tempted to get a Nook, but I'm afraid as soon as I buy it they'll lower the price by 75 bucks and come out with a better version.

[janine]

RandomAnthony wrote: "I'm gettin' really tempted to get a Nook, but I'm afraid as soon as I buy it they'll lower the price by 75 bucks and come out with a better version."

then maybe you should buy it, to do everyone else a favor.

[Félix]

Really, RA. Don't be so self centered.

[RandomAnthony]

Thanks to Ben for alerting me to this...Otis, the founder of GR, is very much looking to the online future of books...

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/...

(some interesting GR stats, too, in the article)