<p>Do you highlight your textbooks?</p>
<p>I do, but I plan on keeping all my text books.</p>
<p>sorry for title spelling error,</p>
<p>Nah... I don't really learn that way. What I do is rewrite important points from the textbook... so I sit there with a notebook and copy down terms and such.</p>
<p>yeah but if you are reading a science or engineering textbook, almost every word is important.</p>
<p>Not really, I think, just key terms and formulas and general trends/concepts.</p>
<p>I never highlight, it does no good for me and I have to haul my textbook around if I want to see the important parts of the chapter/section/etc. I take notes while reading the textbook, which forces me not only to copy down only what is most important, but to do it in a way that proves I understand it. It's also easier to reference later, rather than pulling out the whole textbook and flipping through entire chapters looking at highlighted words and portions.</p>
<p>I highlight or underline when I read. It makes it easier for me to find important passages and ideas when I'm re-reading.</p>
<p>I don't highlight. it doesn't really help me.
of course I also really look forward to book buy-back day, so I try to keep them in good shape.</p>
<p>no i actually find it distracting while im reading.</p>
<p>I hate higlighting. I find it very distracting to read with highlights in there and I was ticked off when I had to get an old textbook with a few marks in it.</p>
<p>I don't mark my books at all. Even if the profs encourage it, I refuse. I find myself staring at the colors more than the words on the page if there's any sort of mark.</p>
<p>Anything important gets written down on a legal pad, sometimes with a page number for reference.</p>
<p>I underline, find it much more useful than highlighting. If I want to annotate a figure I can do it much easier, w/o having to close the highlighter and open the pen.</p>
<p>I've kept all of my major books and it has been a great help for grad school (esp. since I'm studying for quals now)!</p>