While reading...

[lilia_blackbear]

I just began a non-fiction book that is a bunch of essays that is going to try to convince me that there is life after death, and that belief has nothing to do with faith. It's part of my 101 in 1001 where I threw some dice to choose a dewy-decimal book for me, and the dice chose this one. I was a little put off by the introduction wherein in

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[stregalunae]

this. I typically check for what looks like they'll be content notes and then if it was a really interesting book I'll scan the notes for more content later

[zylch]

I don't use bookmarks. I figure if I can't remember where I was, I should probably either reread it or quit. And when reading, I just look up the notes to a passage if I'm a)intrigued and want more detail or b)think the author is full of shit and want to check a reference.

The only time I have used bookmarking for a text-to-endnotes sort of thing is when I was translating from the original, and so flipping back to the notes every couple of lines. For that, I used a big clip and clipped all the intermediate pages together. Useful at the slow pace and heavy note usage of translating, not so much for general reading.

[ruisseau]

Let's also define bookmark as "pencil, other book, random thing lying on desk" and my answer is more accurate. However, it's also more about one page is the problem set and the other is the solution pages in math texts. I do read non-fiction but it rarely has endnotes. Footnotes are more common.

[shadowkindrd]

I said don't read the notes, but I want to be more precise. I don't read the notes until I'm either through with the book, or if the text itself doesn't make sense, or if I don't know anything about the topic and I feel I need more edification on the point. Most of the time, though, I just don't read them at all.

When doing an academic paper, though, my response changes to I use my fingers as bookmarks.