I'm learning a subject which is completely new to me. To further that 
end, I am reading an extremely long document (many hundreds if not 
thousands of pages long), using Mac 10.3.3 and Safari 1.2.1. Is there a 
way to highlight certain parts (perhaps a sentence here, several 
paragraphs there) for future reference? I don't think I want to cut and 
paste into a new, separate document (using TextEdit or Stickies) 
because it's very likely that later on I will want some of the detail 
that is now over my head.

If I were reading it in old-fashioned textbook form, I would use a 
yellow highlighting pen, and the next time through, I would consult the 
table of contents to find roughly the right chapter, then look for my 
yellow marks to find specific topics. Is there a way to do something 
similar without downloading the whole (huge) text?

In my imagination, this would look something like the way Google 
highlights your search terms in a cached page, but I don't have enough 
confidence in my grasp of the material to think that I will remember 
the exact words or terms to search.

Many thanks,
Alex Whitman




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