One thing I like about my Kindle is its ability to highlight passages/words and view them outside of the book in a separate file. I use this feature to highlight words that I ended up looking in the dictionary and to highlight quotes that I liked.

My 10 most recent highlighted words: (unedited so you get to see how lame my vocabulary is)

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This quote from The Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman made me laugh:

"...Mrs. Holland had a visit from Mr. Selby. This was quite unexpected; she hardly knew the etiquette for the polite reception of a blackmail victim, but she did her best."

I was a little dismayed to notice how many TV-related posts I have been doing lately, so I thought I would share a quote I enjoyed from "How Fiction Works" by James Wood ( Read more... )