I have realized that the end goal of the Close reading forum is to be able to do it internally - to stop myself from just skimming and consuming but instead perfoming the entire Close reading process, chewing on every little idea, without ever having to write it all down. Right now it's great practice, but it's kind of slow and produces a somewhat unnecessary artifact. I guess I enjoy doing it but sometimes it expels some embarrassing thoughts that I might want to keep to myself until they're more polished. I forget my good ideas if they're not written down sometimes. I forget my good ideas even if I do write them down sometimes too, though.