It’s not how they taught us to annotate in school, or anywhere else. It depends on the person and the book, but personally I love going back to reread some books! I only want to reread certain parts of them, so I mark those. Like if I was feeling down I’d go to the happy part, if I simply enjoyed the book I’ll go to the interesting parts, or sometimes just to mark how much I read in a certain amount of time! And different colours for each.
I new some people would put (sticky) notes in it but never expected them to actually reread it… Though tbh so far I’ve never read a book twice, since the whole surprise element is gone..
not colour coding the tabs absolutely freaks me out lmaooooo I usually choose a colour for each theme/topic i tab and try to match them to the cover as best i can
Hi. I have been using tabs but i only put them in to mark what i want because colour coding makes me feel a little nervous. I want to ask how do you know which themes you are looking out for if you haven't read the book yet?
@@raina2319 sometimes i annotate on a reread, sometimes i read the plot synopsis and pick really vague themes (things such as development of a relationship if it’s a romance book) and I also sometimes add to my themes as I read i usually start off annotating in pencil for 50-100 pages then I go back and colour code once I have more of an idea of what I’m looking for
@@artezzzz Same, I don't annotate nothing (or anything, for y'all grammarians). If I want to reread, I either read the whole book again OR i frantically search for the part I liked a lot. Sometimes I bookmark it and then write it down somewhere.
I wish books made me cry. I’ve never cried despite the deaths and sad scenes I’ve read. Never shed a tear. It’s annoying. I want to feel the ultimate emotion while reading :(
read ugly love by colleen hoover. trust me. you will cry because the devastation you will have. read it!! but its laid out so well, the people the time, the main character. extremely relatable. it gives you something to cry and want to scream at the top of your lungs in happiness. 💗
Finally, someone like me who tabs using whichever colour they feel like at the moment. I tried the whole “specific coloured tab for specific theme” - but I found I was going through one type of colour so swiftly while barely using the rest, that I ended up spending a LOT on new tab strips.
I love this! I was just now tabbing without color coding (for the aesthetics) and only tabbing if I WANT to come back to this page or passage. I’m so glad the first video I watched said the exact same thing! No need to stress yourself about reading for fun! ❤😇✨
I read only horror pretty much. This is how I annotate. Orange: Fucked up scene/something that rose an emotion out me Pink: Relationship/other Yellow: Important information/Plot Information Green: Quotes / good writing Blue: Character development/mindset Always colour code if you can. Makes more sense
Here's how I annotate all my books. I just rip out all the pages I don't want, and keep the ones I do. It's alot easier this way! Plus you don't have to spend money on tabs ;)
Thank you so much I’ve been trying to figure this out for weeks me and my sister well my sister mainly are book lovers I am starting to read more and more books and I’ve been wanting to try this❤❤❤
I tab my books the same way: anytime I laugh, smile, or cry. The problem is, almost all the books I read have super snarky and like sarcastic characters with lots of trauma (also, I'm a very emotional person), so I end up having tabs on almost every page and then it's not really worth it anymore
I just started doing that to my last book and I just realized how much easier to go back and reread my favorite parts. Normally I struggle looking through all the pages because I can’t find the part I want to reread.
I do this! I wish I had colors corresponding with certain events but I always run out of the one color I need. Like when I’m reading a romance, all my pink run out and then I just use random stuff. I’m so glad I’m not the only one :)
How I tab Match the colors/vibes of the book Light color to make lines/sentences I loved (can be anything like happy, cute, romantic, sad, funny, sarcastic, etc) Dark color for scenes that I loved that didn’t have a specific line that I loved but the scene was just amazing, and it can be for any kind of scene, as long as I would go back to reread that scene
How i tab my books 👍 Yellow: bookmark Blue: sad/cry Pink: romance/smile Orange: anger/stress/tense or things along thise lines Green: funny/laugh Hope this helps! I just use page markers from convenience stores :3 And let me know your way!
Trust me once you’re at the masters level no way in hell you’re going to use annotations for fun because you’ve done it so much for finals and important parts of chapters and your own notes that you give up but it’s always a good idea to match your dividers with a subject/theme and even an highlighter color if you don’t mind writing in your textbooks or any books for that matter…I was in uni when the tablet version of textbooks came out but I always get both versions so i can really write and whatnot in the physical book but I’m guessing if people start to read books on tablets more and more (which is not the same especially for books that aren’t for school) it would be easier to annotate on a tablet and highlight and everything
It depends. I like to annotate and tab parts in books that stand out to me - things that felt meaningful, of hit a big emotion and that I want to go back to later. Or details I think are important that if I’m later in the book I can go back and not forget. You don’t have to annotate books and if you do want to, you don’t have to be super intense about it! Do what works for you, don’t compare your reading habits to those of other readers . :)
When I did AP Lang in high school I would color code each tab to a theme so that when we’d have to write an essay on the theme (usually we’d need quotes from the book), I had the themes already and wouldn’t have to go back and look through. Also always a color for funny/meaningful quotes that I knew I’d want to reread/remember 😅
i tab things with big square transparent post its, usually just my favorite parts. last time it was because i wa s drawing a scene and just tabbed it out for easy access.
I thought i was the only one who didn't designate the colours of the tabs to the content because I spend half my time just deciding what exactly I'm feeling at the moment.
I use the color that fits the emotion and what part it plays in the boom for example Yellow:very cute moments that make me love the book more❤ Green:very interesting moments that will help me understand the book📖 Red:the page that will have anything to do with love❤
my annotating style (the color changes. it depends on the book cover colors): -plot (plot point, plot twist, character introduction) -positive emotion (funny, excitement, love) -negative emotion (anger, despair, sad) -miscellaneous (literally anything else) my system works best for me, of course it doesn't apply to everyone else. you could try it if you want i prefer annotating as little as i can. too many post-it tabs over-whelm me, so i only annotate on moments that truly matter to me and are worth looking back on
i have a different color per character and if it’s not dialogue, then i have blue for sad, pink for romance, green for imagery, red for anger, and orange for misc.
My tabs are random colored and one specific tab is for a specific chapter and for the split narritive..and the begging of new narrator and I match the tab set to the books and I tab were I smile laugh cry or feel sad angry ect and I annotate highlight and just comment where I want I see tabbing as fun cus all my life annotating was for school questions ect but now it’s just my thoughts how I feel about a scene or anything like a little lol or lmao on whyyyy or any little things even hearts and little sparkles ✨ that’s just how I do and my books are always full of tabs!
I tab the sentences that I really like (the way it was framed etc). I dont write anything in the book. I personally dont like ruining those pristine pages lol.
I need to do this cus I just keep flicking through like 400 pages trynna find the one page where my favourite moment is/ a part I keep thinking about lol
My AOCTAR series belongs in a museum or some sort of collection somewhere. I think it was one of my first times tabbing. It’s so extra. I’m talking, embarrassing. 🙈
Truthfully I don’t really annotate my books. If I want to mark a page, I usually just fold down the corner (my bf has scorned me for this lol) Also I read Every Summer After, I actually really enjoyed it.
A story for you called.. The maple tree I sit in..: A little girl who was 4 with no parents at all. She wandered in the woods happily.. She met animals. Nobody knows who she is.. nobody knows her.. And nobody named her. She was a orphan with no home. Until a kind lady who was 26 asked her: Hey kid! Where is your parents? The girl answered: "I don't have any" in a sweet gentle voice. The woman asks her to be her daughter. And she was so happy she accepted. One morning at her new home, she said: Mom.. Can we go to the park? The woman said yes. When they went to the park they saw a maple tree. The girl said: Oh, mother what lf we made maple syrup with the tree? The woman said: of course we can, why not now? I have a bucket in the car! PT:2??
My book annotations are so intense to say the least Like i legit use every tab by the end of the book exp. Plot twist Quote Sad Happy Write that down Omg Scary Character info World building I have even more but those are the main ones I use
