It's a great idea, and probably helps you actually take in the information much better, but I could never do it 😂. My wife is all about writing lists and organizing her thoughts, and it helps her so much, it helps me too but I'm way more of a just go for it type. Plus I mostly read sci fi and fiction anyhow. I totally get wanting real books though, I just can't do the digital books for some reason. I've bought and sold small libraries over the years as we've moved countries. The only thing that has drawn me to consider something like a kindle is that it gets expensive buying books all the time, and they can be a pain to get rid of when you can't take them with you. Still, I just love reading paper for some reason.
RE: Reading journal