If you're not taking notes while reading, you might as well be jerking off instead. You will forget everything and gain nothing.
If you're not taking notes while reading, you might as well be masturbating instead.
If you're not taking notes while reading, you might as well be jerking off instead. You will forget everything and gain nothing.
To be fair, this only applies to non-fiction, but you are right, OP.
>t. dumb hoes in calc 1 class who think that an indexed journal of notes with perfect typography and decorative flourishes on each page is going to save them from having to know what a derivative is
I'm not a foid
not to defend the dumb hoes but it's been proven that writing things down helps with remembering
>>“In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence for thought and mechanical learning for the true dialect of the living quest for truth by discourse and conversation.”
Aint nobody here having conversations
You only know that because someone wrote it down you moron.
Memorygays have no response.
>Read book
>great locations and people from it in my minds eye
>return to these places to rape and kill the femoid characters from time to time while jerking off in the real world
Heh, bet you didn't expect that now, did you?
And then what? I've been noting down stuff on my book & been enjoying doing so, but I dread writing an essay around it. What do you do with your notes?
The notetaking itself as a means of improving retention and understanding I think is the idea if you don't intend to use it for future writings.
Your note are meant for you to absorb the text and to be able to reread them in the future for ease of reference. If you want to take things to the next level though, look up personal knowledge management systems like zettelkasten, "second brains," or commonplace books.
Sam Johnson counsels reading books twice. What I do is stick to a subject for a season-- say, The Civil War: McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom, Catton's This Hallowed Ground, and 3-part Army of the Potomac, Foote's monstrous Narrative, Wilson's Patriotic Gore, Penn Warren's Legacy, Wilson's Gore, Sherman's Memoirs, as well as Grant's, Douglas's Autobiography, and Guthrie's Jackson (Rebel Yell). I'd say I know the subject reasonably well. Next time I hit the subject I'll read different books: there's a ton of them.
You take notes when you do a second read. The first time experiencing a book is not meant to scapel out chunks to see how everything is formed and how other parts converge. That doesn't mean you can't "think" about what you're reading. Its more so you shouldn't make reading a discpline when you're experiencing something for the very first time (theirs some exceptions to this rule). No one should go into a piece of work for the first time as an academic. You should enjoy a book like a child expecting something new
I read and jerk off without a care in the world, so there
I once saw an interview of Paul McCartney. He said that in the early days they wouldn't write down the lyrics of the songs they had come up with. He said that if the lyrics were good enough they would just remember them.
And so the ones that were good became classics, and the ones that weren't faded into oblivion.
I think it's the same with books. If the characters, ideas, plotlines, elements from the story are worth remembering they'll stick with you. The ones that don't weren't meant to be remembered anyway.
Also, there's nothing more homosexual than taking notes. OP guzzles liters of Black person cum every day.
No one takes notes on fiction, dumb morons
I met a girl in college that read ya romance and every book was overflowing with colorful little notes
I annotate parts where I agree, disagree, or have some kind of emotional reaction.
We're talking about learning nonfiction not creating things and you are not Paul McCartney you're just some fat homosexual.
Good luck on your multiple choice test on To Kill A Mockingbird, OP.
Nah man.
This discussion is moronic. If you're reading non-fiction to learn something of course you need to take notes. If you take notes reading fiction you are a woman
I take notes while I'm jerking off
>...you might as well be jerking off instead [of reading]
i usually do
uhuh, I don't care.
If you're not taking notes while reading the notes you made while reading, you might as well be jerking off instead. You will forget everything and gain nothing.
I never take notes, but I do summarize each chapter and explain it to my cat, which is a far superior method.
I watched a tv show I hadn’t seen since I was a kid and after the first few scenes I could remember characters and plot points from the entire show. It’s Space Above and Beyond, a failed show that ran one season so it’s not like I’ve picked it up passively.
Your brain is so good at remembering things it keeps plot points from cheap tv around 20 years later. How the frick are you forgetting everything the minute you put down a book?
I only remember very vague outlines of the novels I've read. TBK, I know it was about 3 brothers and their father, and there was some kind of trial. Moby-Dick plot: 1) they get on a boat to chase this whale 2) ??????? 3) some final battle with the whale, don't remember how it ends.
There's no point in a moron like me reading books. I retain nothing and I have nothing to say. I'd pretend I've never heard of these books if someone asked me.
If you're not jerking off while taking notes, you might as well be reading instead. You will forget everything and gain nothing.