no, seems conceited. I'm too busy absorbing the author's scenes and ideas to want to project my own onto the work. I've read hundreds of books and never once had something that I felt I needed to write down right at that moment.
Sometimes, but you really have to use a pen/pencil of a different color if you are going to do this, it being the same color as the text just makes both the text and the notes difficult to read. I like red or green.
Immediacy is not why people do it, it is very handy to have the notes and the text as one and if I did it all in notebooks I would have nearly as many notebooks as books.
>is very handy to have the notes and the text as one and if I did it all in notebooks I would have nearly as many notebooks as books.
I do it all in notebooks bc i like to take a lot of notes so they wouldn't fit on the margin :p i have finished 4 notebooks in 2 years since i began reading
I buy a lot of used books and it baffles me when people just circle or underline sentences in a book
Someone will reply angrily to another character and they'll write a note 'he is angry'
What the frick is the point?
I never took any notes throughout high school and university so I think I just can't get into it
>I buy a lot of used books and it baffles me when people just circle or underline sentences in a book
I can recreate the thought I had by gesturing at the trigger for that thought. Thus I tend to dog ear two page sections with the ear at the "target" of the turning. Annotation is not full expression but an aide memoire. You seem to have AIDS, mem.
I take notes in philosophy/math texts, I don't in fiction texts. In the former I circle important/technical terms, underline important sentences or put a big line next to paragraphs, put multiple lines for more important stuff, and occasionally star next to a paragraph to indicate that it's a very important paragraph. I also write notes in the margin, i.e. "this is what is meant or what I believe is meant", "this is the structure he's creating", etc., along with notes to other philosophical texts or essays that relate. For fiction books I just enjoy them, and paste in a notepad any quotes I especially liked.
Nicomachean Ethics was the first philosophy book I ever read back when I was in highschool. I had a yellow highlighter and started highlighting everything I thought was important. I ended up having multiple pages where the entire thing was highlighted, outside of maybe connecting words, because I had no clue what was important. I know the next person to have that book will think I was a dumbass, so I'm considering burning it because I have the Complete Works now anyway.
Actual notes can be good, margins don't have the space to write anything meaningful.
As per Fermat
I often make margin notes, underlines, blocks, and circles on non-fiction.
I especially love marking up rare and collectible copies because frick the collector nerds who drive up prices on original copies that they wont even read. I also smoke cigs on my books so that they all frickin stink.
I hate the idea of some book reseller trying to get top dollar for my shit after I die -- so I use and abuse my stuff.
I very rarely mark as I read fiction. I just don't take fiction that seriously, but I understand writers and such would have good reason to study it well.
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If a book has too many doodles and stuff in it it makes the book ugly and so for this reason I do not write in books, but want a solution for this, since It probably does make a person smarter to take notes like this. It's a more engaging style of learning.
>Maybe stop caring so much
Says the person who is considering burning a book because a stranger may think them a dumbass? Ultimately I think this is the real reason most avoid note taking in books,
>Says the person who is considering burning a book because a stranger may think them a dumbass?
It was a little joke! A thought I had when I was 16. I'm not staying up at night thinking about my shitty highlighting.
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I got that, it was just useful for the point. Although your defensiveness does make it sound like you were serious.
I like to highlight and jot down some stuff occasionally as I go. It can be a fun exercise sometimes but other times I just do a reflection in my journal.
Occassionally. But I just underline a single quote or draw a big bracket around a paragraph and write basic shit about how I feel about it. So its just "banger quote" or some allusion to a theme.
Frick no, there's absolutely not point in doing so. I'm there to immerse myself in the book, not nit pick, criticize or exemplify sentences within the physical page itself. That's what using your brain is for.
I just sign the numbers of pages I want to reread on the one of the front pages, with one or two words to remember what they are about - if I feel they connect to each other, I connect them with a line
No I think it's stupid. It makes it harder to read again and most of the time it's a dull superficial remark. If I ever do have something to note I'll write it in a notebook.
I bought some used books online cause certain books are hard and expensive to find in my country and the previous Black person owners scribbled bullshit in the margins with PEN. Not a fricking pencil even. I lost all interest in those right after that. God I am so poor
I often make margin notes, underlines, blocks, and circles on non-fiction.
I especially love marking up rare and collectible copies because frick the collector nerds who drive up prices on original copies that they wont even read. I also smoke cigs on my books so that they all frickin stink.
I hate the idea of some book reseller trying to get top dollar for my shit after I die -- so I use and abuse my stuff.
I very rarely mark as I read fiction. I just don't take fiction that seriously, but I understand writers and such would have good reason to study it well.
If a book has too many doodles and stuff in it it makes the book ugly and so for this reason I do not write in books, but want a solution for this, since It probably does make a person smarter to take notes like this. It's a more engaging style of learning.
Yes
Show me.
no, seems conceited. I'm too busy absorbing the author's scenes and ideas to want to project my own onto the work. I've read hundreds of books and never once had something that I felt I needed to write down right at that moment.
Sometimes, but you really have to use a pen/pencil of a different color if you are going to do this, it being the same color as the text just makes both the text and the notes difficult to read. I like red or green.
Immediacy is not why people do it, it is very handy to have the notes and the text as one and if I did it all in notebooks I would have nearly as many notebooks as books.
>is very handy to have the notes and the text as one and if I did it all in notebooks I would have nearly as many notebooks as books.
I do it all in notebooks bc i like to take a lot of notes so they wouldn't fit on the margin :p i have finished 4 notebooks in 2 years since i began reading
Are you going to publish those 4 notebooks ?
I buy a lot of used books and it baffles me when people just circle or underline sentences in a book
Someone will reply angrily to another character and they'll write a note 'he is angry'
What the frick is the point?
I never took any notes throughout high school and university so I think I just can't get into it
>I buy a lot of used books and it baffles me when people just circle or underline sentences in a book
I can recreate the thought I had by gesturing at the trigger for that thought. Thus I tend to dog ear two page sections with the ear at the "target" of the turning. Annotation is not full expression but an aide memoire. You seem to have AIDS, mem.
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Notes are not about being profound, they are about simplifying the context and making it easier to reference the book later on.
Actual notes can be good, margins don't have the space to write anything meaningful.
Marginalia exploits the context of the page, it allows you to be more terse in your notes without losing that context.
Sometimes it helps you engage more with what your reading and develop your own ideas about the text
Shouldn't have done that to him. He was just a boy.
I take notes in philosophy/math texts, I don't in fiction texts. In the former I circle important/technical terms, underline important sentences or put a big line next to paragraphs, put multiple lines for more important stuff, and occasionally star next to a paragraph to indicate that it's a very important paragraph. I also write notes in the margin, i.e. "this is what is meant or what I believe is meant", "this is the structure he's creating", etc., along with notes to other philosophical texts or essays that relate. For fiction books I just enjoy them, and paste in a notepad any quotes I especially liked.
Nicomachean Ethics was the first philosophy book I ever read back when I was in highschool. I had a yellow highlighter and started highlighting everything I thought was important. I ended up having multiple pages where the entire thing was highlighted, outside of maybe connecting words, because I had no clue what was important. I know the next person to have that book will think I was a dumbass, so I'm considering burning it because I have the Complete Works now anyway.
As per Fermat
based
Maybe stop caring so much
>Maybe stop caring so much
Says the person who is considering burning a book because a stranger may think them a dumbass? Ultimately I think this is the real reason most avoid note taking in books,
>Says the person who is considering burning a book because a stranger may think them a dumbass?
It was a little joke! A thought I had when I was 16. I'm not staying up at night thinking about my shitty highlighting.
I got that, it was just useful for the point. Although your defensiveness does make it sound like you were serious.
MARGINALIA GANG RISE UP
NO, ONLY A TROGLODYTE DOES THAT.
Sometimes I’ll keep a notebook, but that’s it.
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I like to highlight and jot down some stuff occasionally as I go. It can be a fun exercise sometimes but other times I just do a reflection in my journal.
Occassionally. But I just underline a single quote or draw a big bracket around a paragraph and write basic shit about how I feel about it. So its just "banger quote" or some allusion to a theme.
Not in pen ffs
Frick no, there's absolutely not point in doing so. I'm there to immerse myself in the book, not nit pick, criticize or exemplify sentences within the physical page itself. That's what using your brain is for.
I just sign the numbers of pages I want to reread on the one of the front pages, with one or two words to remember what they are about - if I feel they connect to each other, I connect them with a line
No. I poop in them
>average reader-supplied notes
yes and its made me contemplate getting a bible with large margins
I wouldn't want my own stupidity to distract from the words on the page...
If you must just make a separate journal and write your thoughts in it that way.
No I think it's stupid. It makes it harder to read again and most of the time it's a dull superficial remark. If I ever do have something to note I'll write it in a notebook.
I am not a woman, so no, I do not.
Sometimes. But my handwriting is so fricking atrocious whenever I come back a couple years later to see what I said I can't read a thing.
I bought some used books online cause certain books are hard and expensive to find in my country and the previous Black person owners scribbled bullshit in the margins with PEN. Not a fricking pencil even. I lost all interest in those right after that. God I am so poor
I often make margin notes, underlines, blocks, and circles on non-fiction.
I especially love marking up rare and collectible copies because frick the collector nerds who drive up prices on original copies that they wont even read. I also smoke cigs on my books so that they all frickin stink.
I hate the idea of some book reseller trying to get top dollar for my shit after I die -- so I use and abuse my stuff.
I very rarely mark as I read fiction. I just don't take fiction that seriously, but I understand writers and such would have good reason to study it well.
>Do you write in your books?
I write in other people's.
If a book has too many doodles and stuff in it it makes the book ugly and so for this reason I do not write in books, but want a solution for this, since It probably does make a person smarter to take notes like this. It's a more engaging style of learning.