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There is a thing that I notice when I read with my kindle, that I never noticed in reading actual-factual paper books, because I never managed to get into the habit of writing notes in books. I like the idea and I honestly enjoyed getting used textbooks in college that had other people's thoughts and annotations in them, but I can't make myself do it. Even when the books is mine, even when I've read it hundreds of time and the cover is crumpled and all the pages are dogeared. Books are not for writing in. But kindle books, I can annotate and highlight to my heart's content, without feeling like I'm defacing something. So I do.

I find that things I'm reading (for want of a better word) fannishly get so many more annotations than other things. It's not that I don't enjoy the other things, or that I don't annotate. It's just that the annotations in those tend to be stuff like "Look up a translation for this" or "Find the relevant Bible passage" or whatever. But, for example, when I reread Dracula on the kindle, the annotations had stuff like that, yes, but also stuff discussing character dynamics and highlighting descriptive passages I particularly liked and occasional notes that just said "Eee!" or "Heh" or "God, but you're an idiot". The current reread of Sherlock Holmes gets the same kind of notes, as do certain Lovecraft stories.

It's neat. I mean, I've always known that I engage differently when I'm fannish about a source but it's kinda cool seeing proof like that.