20 pages a day

My son has reading to do over his break. He paces himself. He asked why I took a picture of his book on the plane.

I told him it was because of all his sticky note tabs. He gave me a puzzled look. 

"We didn't have them when I read Hemmingway."

My son is usually very aware of our generational differences. This time I do believe that his jaw dropped. 

"We wrote in the margins." 

"But we can't write in a school book."

"Then we took notes on a piece of paper and stuck it in the spine. If we were lucky, we didn't drop the book."