Making notes while reading a book

I do make notes when I am reading my school books. I just add some sticky notes or even write in the margin. I don't however take notes it i am reading a book for pleasure. Most of the time I can remember witouth notes but I am a psychology major and sometimes all those big words can get mixed up so I try to put them on notecards that way I can use them for like a flashcard game and it helps me to gett them all down.

If they are my own books, yes I will use pencil to make notes to myself in the margins. Some of my collectible books I woont write in. But I like to make notes as I read so I will have sticky note pads available to make notes I want to remember.

hi there, lopium.. greetings from the philippines! i remember back in college, my favorite subject was philosophy.. my book was filled with lots of notes on the margins and my notebook on the subject was really packed. i don't do it in all the books i read. i usually keep a journal where i jot down some nice quotations or learnings. one thing that i also do to remember useful notes from what i've read is to write them on index cards. to this day, i still keep notes on what i read from the Bible. my day isn't complete without reading and meditating on Scripture. happy myLotting!

Sometimes I take notes when I am reading, it depends what kind of books I am reading. I don't usually write much in my books, as I find it too confusing, but I might underline a few of the important words or paragraphs. When I am studying for an exam I take lots of notes, but I always use a separate notebook. I have developed my own system, and it works very well for me. I use questions and answers in my notes (I ask questions and I answer them) and I can be very systematic.

I do not make notes if I am reading fiction for just entertainment. If I am asked to read fiction to make a review of the book or that is a prescribed textbook for a course, then yes, I make notes. But notes will be made whenever I read a non-fiction book esp when the subject matter of the book interests me, even if I am not reading them for academic purposes. But marking interesting portions to be re-read does happen. However earlier in my life I never used to even mark my book with a pencil or markers.Nowadays I do that. When I read a book that presents controversial ideas however I write copious observations in the margins. Like one book that I have written too much in the margins was "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne. Here the notes are supposed to bring out my "differences" with whatever is presented. In textbooks, when I mark and write marginal notes, they more often than not in appreciation of the style of presentation, or rarely pointing the errors I notice(I see more errors in computer programming books than in conventional technical books like Control Systems.