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Aug 02, 2011 10:06AM
I was wondering if anyone else takes notes while they're reading a book about things they noticed that they want to mention in the review? I do this sometimes when I know it's something tiny I'll forget.
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Yes I do and I'll also do something like that in my reading updates, I can go back later and pick the notes up from that (and quotes too).When reading off the kindle I can highlight quotes and make notes and pick them up that way. BTW, Amazon gives every kindle owner an Amazon kindle page. Go to kindle.amazon.com and sign in with your regular email/password. Your quotes and notes will be on the highlights page and then you can copy and paste from there to review.
Now if I could get that to work for a reguar book...
For me it depends on my mood, what I am reading and also on the length of the book itself. For longer books, notes can be a definite help, although for me, taking notes also often feels like being back at university. And if I take notes, I will generally also write a longer, more involved and often more academic review (sometimes that's fine, but other times, it tends to stifle creativity).
Oooh. I need to remember to do that on my kindle. I've been writing them into my cellphone for later.
Yes, on the Kindle, no on a physical book. My reviews are usually on the short side, a simple impression of a book, rather than a true analysis. But I often include a quote or two. For the physical book, I make a mental note of the page number. My memory isn't perfect, but I'll be close, and I'm certain to remember what was happening surrounding it, so that I've always been able to find it again.
No but when I attempt a review I always wish I did.
I agree with BunWat and Pamela. Yep a little conflicted here. :)
BunWat wrote: "No. I'm not doing homework here."I feel the same way. :)
I normally have a pad of paper near my reading spot, so I may jot down a page for a quote I want to like/add on Goodreads, but other than that I don't.
I am, however, trying to start leaving comments with my status updates, just to have a little extra to go back to if I need it.
I don't take notes as such. I did enough of that when reading was homework. However, on the kindle I add highlights and in some books (generally ones that I've bought second hand) I sometimes mark passages and write the page number of the marked passage at the end of the book. In many cases I never go back to the marked passage again, but the practice has helped me write a review or add a quote from time to time.
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My dad used to use bookdarts. I love that they're so cheap and easy to use.I really didn't think about that it might seem like homework to some people. :o I think I'm just used to jotting things down because of the stickynote cascade and the thousands of txts i send my self. lol
The only time I do anything like this, is when I'm reading a short story collection, I'll usually try to stop reading after 2 or 3 stories, and get my review about them written out before moving on to the next couple of stories. I find things tend to blur when I fly through a short stories collection, and if I don't stop and individualize each one, I'll forget what happened.
cool. thanks for the link! Cheryl in CC NV wrote: "I use book darts . . . So handy, and can be used in even fragile or library books. http://bookdarts.com/ "
Misfit wrote: "When reading off the kindle I can highlight quotes and make notes and pick them up that way. BTW, Amazon gives every kindle owner an Amazon kindle page. Go to kindle.amazon.com and sign in with your regular email/password. Your quotes and notes will be on the highlights page and then you can copy and paste from there to review."This page, though I signed in, doesn't seem to recognize me and my Kindle. It says I don't have one. Maybe I should get 1-click not to recognize me, it would be a heck of lot cheaper!
It also seems to want to publish them so that the general public can read them. Have I read this correctly?
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Misfit wrote: "When reading off the kindle I can highlight quotes and make notes and pick them up that way. BTW, Amazon gives every kindle owner an Amazon kindle page. Go to kindle.amazon.com and s..."Odd it doesn't recognize you, I've had no problem. You have the choice on any individual book whether to make your notes and highlights public or not. I don't use one click either so that isn't the answer. Perhaps you can contact the folks at Amazon and ask them?
I'm not even sure how *public* these pages are, I'd never have known about them but for something I read at the GR feedbacks group.
As far as I know, the only way you can purchase a Kindle book is with 1-click, that's why I said that. It doesn't have any problem recognizing me to buy things.
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "As far as I know, the only way you can purchase a Kindle book is with 1-click, that's why I said that. It doesn't have any problem recognizing me to buy things."I hope you can get it resolved, it really is slick and you can look at all your kindle books in one place (I keep some on the Kindle PC app until I decide to read them).
Sarah wrote: "I was wondering if anyone else takes notes while they're reading a book about things they noticed that they want to mention in the review? I do this sometimes when I know it's something tiny I'll f..."I have book journals that I write by hand in blank books. I enjoy selecting a beautiful blank book and the process of filling up the pages. I usually write comments in the book journal after I've finished reading, but if it's an anthology I comment about each story individually as I go. Sometimes there's something important that I don't want to forget and immediately jot it down in my journal. The journal comments are the basis for my GR reviews and discussion comments about anything I read. If I read a book in a previous year, I can look up my comments about it and add them to a current discussion.
Misfit wrote: "I hope you can get it resolved, it really is slick and you can look at all your kindle books in one place (I keep some on the Kindle PC app until I decide to read them)."I can go to Manage My Kindle and see all my books. And all my daughter's books, who shares an account with me so we can share books that aren't lendable should we want to. I can do everything except get to that page where you upload your notes and highlights. I'm sure there is something about my settings that is making it not recognize it. Now that I recall, I think I disabled that because I didn't want everyone to be able to look at it. But it would be terribly handy to be able to just copy and paste rather than retype as I have to do now. I'm a fast enough typist it isn't horribly inconvenient, still ...
I usually do take notes, either in the GR Note area, or as a status update on a specific book, or in my journaling software where I keep a list of all the books I've read. How detailed those notes will be depend on the book.
You know, until recently I would have been firmly in the "that's too much like homework" camp, but I'm finding that the more books I read and the more reviews I write they come in pretty handy. If nothing else, a quick couple of lines in on sticky note reminds me of things I liked or wanted to talk about in my review. (Sometimes I struggle finding an "angle" to come at my review from, and a quick note can help, even if it's just a reference to a page number.)
I do...and what I do is use little "post-it" notes so I can go back to a page/part that I want write something down to mention in the review. I find the bigger the book ..if I dont "jot" things down III forget.
I do. I like to take notes while I'm reading a book. Because, sometimes I really feel that I'm in the book. I feel like "If I were this character, eah I would tell all these things", the events, conditions, situations in the book seem like they are happening in my life. The writings seem so meaningful and worth to remember.
Occasionally. For good quotes and if I have a thought or feeling I think I might forget. It depends on the book.
