I’ve been doing this thing recently where I’ll make a list of the chapters in the book and every time I finish a chapter I’ll write a small summary and even highlight it a color that feels appropriate if I feel it would help me remember it better. I’ll show you what I mean.
This series had 5 books so after every chapter I tried to summarize it as succinctly as I could.
What I noticed is that this helped me memorize so much more than I usually do about a book. Because I’m always coming back to the list as I progress thru the book, I spend more time looking at how the story is structured, how the pacing has been, and where I think the story might go next.
Plus if I ever in the future forget details, I’m sure looking over this will quickly refresh me.
Do you take any notes? It’s obviously not necessary, but it seems to help.
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I use Kindle, and it has a great feature of highlighting text you want. Every time I see a worthy passage I highlight it. Usually it comes to 1-5 passages per book.
Not notes, but I bookmark any passage I like. Later I photocopy and cut out the excerpt to paste in a notebook. I scrapbook all my favourite passages.
I’ve never thought of doing this, but I like it. Sometimes I stop reading and absorb just how well written or clever a passage was.
I do, it helps me concentrate when reading. I do write down all details, just a few points that I find interesting or actionable.
I started doing this recently :)
I started out with annotating - but sometimes I don’t know what to annotate - and I found it helped me remember more of the book.
Then I got a journal from a book subscription box, and I figured why not use it 🤷🏻♀️ So I started writing down questions I had, things that didn’t make sense, things of note, etc. And I felt it helped connect me even more to the story 😅
An unfortunate side effect is that I feel like I can’t read without an arsenal of tools now 😅😅😅
No, never. But if you enjoy doing that while you read, then that’s great! I love the idea in theory, but I just personally would never do that, unless maybe it was an assignment for school.