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100% agree on this.

Publisher pooped on the cake, quite obviously, but the shift is real between people and books. and that shows no sign of slowing down.

I did consider doing this, but gave up after a few books as it started feeling like more of a chore and breaking my immersion.

At first it is so, really… Slow and cumbersome.

Like anything new, I’m tempted to say. And it took me a while to learn to ride a bike, to write (even more so in English than in my native language).

But then it should become more of a second nature, something you won’t even notice much. To be gross for a second, it’s a bit like you don’t break your immersion when you pick up your nose while you’re reading, right? Not that I would imply you ever do such a thing, it’s just me that is so poorly educated… and I can admit that doesn’t break my immersion ;)

More seriously, the key element is to find the set up that works the best for you. The one that will create the less friction between you and your note and the book.

For me, it’s an A6 sized piece of paper, plus a tad larger piece of cardboard (to rest said piece of paper upon when I write) and a cheap ballpoint pen. I slide it in the book (the pen resting in my hand or in my shirt pocket) and I don’t even have to think about it when I don’t need to take any note. The moment I want to mark a passage, have any question or any idea regarding what I read, I slide it out, jot the page number, add some key words for when I will read it later so I will remember what it was about, and slide it back in. I’m back to reading barely noticing I made a pause.

But I insist, when starting out it will be cumbersome and… not great. Just give it more time to get used to it ;)

Does anyone else have this issue? How can I better remember details like this?

I take notes while I read, on index cards that I then index in my 'global ’ note system (see ‘Zettelkasten’ for more on that) which allows me to instantly retrieve info on every single book I’ve read no matter how recently or how long ago, among many other topics.

I also have a spare button. The most… unnoticeable one that would fit most of the shirts I usually wear.

Disclaimer: old dude speaking, I don’t wear t-shirts much or only under a shirt ;)

A very interesting read, thx for sharing.

His idea of getting back to basics and back to long lasting (and also, less demanding/less taxing) solutions is what motivated me to use 100% static and minimal HTML/CSS for my personal website. Among the points he lists, this idea of using a single page did not really cross my mind. It’s something worth considering…

I also obsessively compress my images, well, the few I use. For that, I adopted the AVIF file format. It’s first and foremost a video format and it requires a somewhat recent web browser to display the an image, but it also works wonders with static images, often much better than any of the dedicated image file formats.