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                                              December 10, 2004


My Serious Reading style these days
begins with slicing up some
"post-it notes" (or equivalent)
of various colors to create flags
to mark notable passages.

I stick a selection of them inside the
front cover of the book, so that I'll
have them at hand when I come across
something of interest.

It used to be I wouldn't worry much about which
color I used, but I've tried to systematize
the system a little more, and my current
color code is:


   Green   = Good
                 
   Blue    = Link. A reference to be traced
                                           
   Pink    = Hmm. Something wrong here?      
             Think about this. 

   Orange 
    or      = a quotable quote.
   Yellow     Type this one up.      
                                                       
                      Originally, I used a funny 
                      orange color for this, but    Something is 
                      I ran out, and substituted    very unsatis- 
                      the ubiquitous yellow.        factory about 
   Purple  or                                       that pale                
   Black   or                                       yellow.         Must fix. 
   Electric Green                                                         
                                                                     
          = of immediate importance for a "project"                            
            I have in mind.
                                                      The "project"
        Sometimes I'll have more than                 may be as slight
        one of these special colors                   as a usenent    
        in play, one for each project.                posting.        
                                                        
                                                         Black makes 
                                                         a convienient 
Of course, if I run out of a tab                         tab for a post 
of a given color, than all bets                          to alt.gothic.
are off.  Anything may get used.
                               
  Some books sprout a fringe of blue    
  tabs.  They're jumping off points,
  full of mentions of other things, 
  that given infinite time I would  
  also examine.                     
          
     Some books become piles of  
     pink tags, fodder for rants          Or perhaps a       
     on the author's stupidity --         collection of      
                                          thoughts that don't
                                          seem to me to have 
                                          been carried far   
       Other books become tagged          enough, launching  
       in orange/yellow: piles of         pads for further   
       quotes looking for an              musing.            
       appropriate occasion.     
           


  It's a rare book that
  becomes a forest of            BIBLES
  green, but they exist.


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