reader
a trail for each book. write what you think of each chapter. pin the line you argue with.
a trail for each book
most books want discrete pages: one session, one page, and tomorrow starts empty. a long novel you read slowly over months can be one continuous document instead, with a marker for each day you wrote in it.
one reading session
the wall keeps anarres in as much as it keeps urras out. shevek notices it before anyone says it. the same move as → reading:thinking, fast and slow:ch.2 two systems: the frame you cannot see is the one doing the work.
a highlight is the author's sentence. the answer is yours, and it is the one you recognise six months later.
what you kept
the way back
the list marked ↻ carries forward. choose the dispossessed for the next session's page and the questions you meant to carry are already on it, so the chapter starts where the last one left you. only pins kept on that book's trail come back this way, once, when the page first joins it. pins kept on reading itself stay there.
why not highlights
a highlight marks a sentence someone else wrote. it is quick, and a year later a page of them reads like a stranger's notes. the thinking you did while reading was never written down, so there is nothing to get back.
here the page asks for your sentence first. the pins on a book's trail are the claims you argued with and the questions you carried forward, and each one points back to the session where you worked it out. read them back before the exam, the essay or the next book, and you are reading your own mind on the subject, not the author's.