It keeps you awake and engaged as you read, and reduces your chances of “fake reading syndrome.”
It helps you process what you’re reading as you’re reading it.
It slows down your reading, which is actually a good thing. Decreasing your pace can often increase your comprehension and retention.
It double-whammies as a way to quickly find information later on. In other words, when you go back into the book to find something later, you can just read your annotations, which is faster than reading the actual text a second time through.
