I take extensive notes on it. There are so many characters, places, events, plotlines, lore, etc. It's proven to be incredibly useful. It's the type of series where once you learn some lore, it's fun to go back and re-read certain chapters with that new understanding. I'll frequently pick up the previous books and rifle through them. The notes make it much quicker to find the sections I want to find.

At the same time, I think taking extensive notes can sometimes make it a little less fun. Like I'm consistently pulling myself out of the moment to jot stuff down.

Do you take notes on the books you read? If so, how do you take notes?

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[–] unknown@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Not usually but I did when reading The Locked Tomb books; the never-ending density of information with the potential to be relevant later/earlier/right now but you just don't know it yet, was far too much to keep track of otherwise.

They're incredible books but it's one hell of a mental work out reading them whilst keeping tabs on what is actually going on, and that only just starts to happen properly on the second read-through.

My notes were scribbles in a notebook with page and paragraph numbers next to a quote of the interesting or enlightening phrase, and if a theory was forming I'd add a few words outlining it and underline key ones. That way I could skim over my notes and pick out which bit related to what and where in the book it was.