Inane chatter is welcome, believe me! I don't think I can truly express how happy I was to see your post, it's been one of those months! Suffice to say, I'm glad you're back and look forward to continuing. 

The book sounds like how I used to treat my history texts... and my roleplaying books.... and my theater scripts... But oddly enough, never my fiction. For those I would just jot down notes and stick them on the front leaf with pages numbers and a few words, sort of like creating my own index. I can only conclude from this that I am a silly person.