[notes] Trying a New Approach to Note-Taking on Books

Taking a page (no pun intended!) from Eleanor Konik’s book. Assumed audience: People who care about note-taking and are already persuaded that thinking “with” a book via note-taking is helpful and good. This evening I started rereading Sabrina B. Little’s excellent The Examined Run: Why Good People Make Better Runners (which I quoted briefly here a few months ago) with a two-fold purpose: discussing it with my 14-year-old daughter over the summer so she has good reading to accompany her summer running training, and getting a much firmer grasp on the book’s insights. I’ve been mulling some ways that Little’s thesis and framing — that virtue ethics is a particularly helpful lens for thinking about endurance running specifically and endurance sports more generally — may fit into future endeavors of my own. More on that anon, and all this merely by way of setup — Back in May, Eleanor Konik published 🌲 How to Take Notes on Physical Library Books, and it stuck in my head as a great idea,…