For me, the idea of taking notes and reflecting on passages is to get the most out of a book. Sometimes I finish a book and don't walk away with too much — I'd like to really chew and digest every bit of it. I guess it's the whole idea of 'active reading'.
Yeah it's certainly not a bad idea. I think personally it just makes me think too much of writing a paper in high school so it doesn't sound like an appealing way to read. I do however really like the idea of coming together and discussing books after we read them. Maybe we could use this tribe as a sort of make-shift book club?
Until we have a larger community I doubt those single "I've read this book, lets discuss" threads will work that well, we just don't have enough people to fill that amount of niches yet. But I do kind of dig the idea of picking a single book of the month that maybe we can vote for in some sort of list snap first and then those who read it can discuss. We can do a Text Post thread first to get a list of books, then we can organize it in a list and allow everyone to vote for a few days, and then we can go with the top voted one maybe? Just an idea I guess. I do really like the approach though!
Edit: We can even have a genre of the month maybe? :D
See, I feel like if I'm stopping to make notes that much, I'm not really enjoying the book so much as studying it. Though, I guess I could always re-read and take notes then, especially on the new things I pick up on.
For me, the idea of taking notes and reflecting on passages is to get the most out of a book. Sometimes I finish a book and don't walk away with too much — I'd like to really chew and digest every bit of it. I guess it's the whole idea of 'active reading'.
Yeah it's certainly not a bad idea. I think personally it just makes me think too much of writing a paper in high school so it doesn't sound like an appealing way to read. I do however really like the idea of coming together and discussing books after we read them. Maybe we could use this tribe as a sort of make-shift book club?
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See, I feel like if I'm stopping to make notes that much, I'm not really enjoying the book so much as studying it. Though, I guess I could always re-read and take notes then, especially on the new things I pick up on.
Yeah, I wouldn't want to sacrifice my enjoyment of the book. I'd just jot down little notes as I read and perhaps backtrack later to reflect.