It's a trope that readers wildly overestimate the cognitive value of highlighting, but I have a lot of sympathy for highlighting as a purely expressive gesture. It's a (feeble) avenue for reacting or participating in the face of a static, immutable block of someone-else's-text.
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I like it for kindle because I can export the highlights, which I then turn into a note in roam
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I'm glad that works for you! I've found that workflow quite tough in practice… I almost always need much more context around the highlight to do the synthesis I want to do, etc.
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Ah I never do synthesis. Happy to just have quotes on file ready to misuse for my own needs.
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