If you do, how do you take notes when reading a book? Highlighting

I don't take notes. After I finish reading a book, I write a poem with themes and ideas found in the book, and in books I read before that. That way, I build a dialogue between different themes and ideas.

>>9650991
write in margins with a #2pencil. have developed a code with greek alphabet so that often notes consist of single letters here and there.

>>9650991
i just underline or bracket passages which i like, then stick a little sticky note on the page so i can go back and refer to it, and then later i write down what notes i would have written on the page in my diary instead, saving the book from being riddled with stupid notes

>>9651019
What do the letters refer to?

>>9650994
i-is a copypasta?

>>9650994
Aw this is genuinely cute

>>9651028
allusion (gamma ww cd be wordsworth or whitman) theme to follow (theta 1, theta 2) key passage (kappa) etc. Using about 16 letters at this point. It isn't difficult.