How do you read books? If this sounds like a stupid question, I’ll explain why I ask.
Are you the kind of person who underlines passages or makes a lot of notes in the margins or composes erudite footnotes? The modern equivalent of this would be to use the highlighter and note making options on your tablet of choice.
The old-fashioned way can be seen in well-thumbed library books. I like watching students in libraries diligently working through some set reading material. They will often underline or highlight huge sections of the text. Sometimes they even mark it all as if to remind themselves what they have read. This is the academic equivalent of marking dates off a calendar. Whether or not they remember the content is another matter!
My Mom borrows about half a dozen titles every couple of weeks and reads very quickly. She likes historical romances best. She never makes a note of what she’s read so will often be half way through a novel before realising that she’s read it before. Continue reading
