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I've shared a couple of things recently that are any thoughts or notes that I'm making while reading books. Is it a habit I picked up during university? Yes. Has it ever gone away? Not remotely. After university, though, I was confining it to marginalia. In uni, there were also a lot of sticky notes.
Reactions like this, keeping notes like this, might be one of the sorts of things one usually did in a physical commonplace book, which is a concept I adore. But though my thoughts flow better in certain ways when I handwrite, handwriting is only a thing I can do with quality when seated at a solid surface - which is not always where I'm reading.
I'm a much better thinker by pen than by mouth, so talking notes isn't going to do it. I wonder why that is, why my hands think better than my mouth does. I can rattle for hours with a pen in my hand. It's almost like it thinks for itself, and much speedier at that.
Here we are, then. Messy notes, transcribed to a readable form.
And to answer a final question. Yes, I will do this for fiction books too.