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What's your professional deformation?
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Graduated a couple years ago with an English PhD: when I go to read anything, I always pick up a pen or pencil as if I’m going to annotate it. I still have to hold one but don't click it out, like a security blanket, otherwise I feel immensely guilty.
Did a literature Master's. Cant not skim unless I'm actively stopping myself from it. Also, the internal literary critic never shuts off, but I think that it's a good thing to always be in critical thinking mode in this day and age, even if it means I can't "it's just a story" anymore.
We called that “reading diagonally”