😭😭😭😭😭FRRRRRR SAME i be like "girl u slayyed the house down but he acting up like a bitch, leave him already queen" as if the the characters can hear me 💀
Same never annotated a book in my entire life- most I did was mark a small quote I liked and instantly regretted cause "whY diD I hAvE tO ruIn tHe bOoK"
People really be writing hella paragraphs on their books while my annotations be like- "Slayyy" "I hate him" "Go to therapy" "OMG SAME" "lmao mood" and "Ship♡" 💀💀 Edit: MOM LOOK I'M FAMOUS-
As someone who was an English major and barely made it out alive, I hate annotating my own books. I never know what to write if it's not language analysis. but I do appreciate the aesthetic 💓
Why would anyone do this to a book you’re reading for pleasure? 😂. Enjoy the book for the sake of it. This is like teachers who read to you and stop to ask questions after every sentence. Lame.
@@SpiralBreeze I mean, being able to question what you're reading is always a good thing. It can actually bring you a better understanding of the text in some cases. But I agree that a lot of the time it can take away some of the lighthearted enjoyment of reading
Hi! How do you do your language analysis? This is also something I'd actually love start doing with my own reads, to get a better grasp of what I am actually internalizing (currently reading mostly classics and some poetry), though I have very little insight on what to do, so I'd be happy with any tip :))
I like annotating but I get so drawn in by the book that I forget to do it. And then I get annoyed when I realise all of the things I could of annotated, like what I was thinking as i read it and my predictions.
SAME it's so annoying!! also i take my books on the bus with me and since our bus is all packed with kids it's hard to take out stuff and annotate its so that's also really annoying
Unwarranted opinion: People caught up with neat annotations, or worse have tabs _everywhere_ usually write pointless shit, other English majors can change my mind lmao
I get kinda bored while annotating, so now if I like a quote or a moment only then will I highlight it and tab it. Only on occasion will I write things and underline 💀💀
you should only annotate if you feel like it. if you don´t want to annotate a certain part then don´t you´re not forced to do it because it looks aesthetic :) you do it your way and that´s perfect!
Most people do to. It’s quite pointless to annotate random stuff that you’re not interested in if your not reviewing the book or something. People annotate cause they like quotes or wanna write how they felt about something so don’t feel alone in this.
I just physically can't, even with the books i use for studies which are meant for writing in. I use pencil to not ruin it, i remember giving my book to a classmate and she marked the answers with a pen. I swear, I was so mad at her.
I get it. Each one does what they prefer with their books. At the end of the day you payed for it. And either way there’s not a right or wrong way to read or use books.
I'm treating my book like it's someone else book when I'm the one who pays for it... it's tiring somehow but idk why I just love to keep the book clean
Me and my friend bought Midnight Sun simply to annotate it - each of us reads a chapter, writes whatever in the book and gives it to the other to read along with her comments. This makes reading it so much fun.
I tried annotating a book about fields and agriculture that my sister owned, but I still couldn't do it, despite it not being my own self-bought book, because I literally found every single line or paragraph so important/connected to one another that I wanted to annotate them all and because I couldn't stand the idea of ruining the perfect smooth pages with my writings. 😭
when I annotate I do it with a pencil. I am too scared to use pen on my books bc I always end up hating it and thinking that I destroyed the book( it bothers me especially if its my favs)
I could never annotate my books 😂 My anxiety could never, I'd always be too afraid to ruin the book. Also I'm usually way too deep in the fictional world to even think of writing something down 😅
I hate annotating but I annotated the hell out of the yearbook by holly bourne as the lovers LITERALLY meet by the annotations both of them write in the books and it’s so cute !! I def recommend as they are both book lovers ( it also has kinda important things that they deal with like bullying/abuse / divorced parents ) but it’s super nice and a 5/5 read
I was reading digital books using one of those book reading apps and my phone crashed and all my notes and extra stuff I had added to the books went with it😭😭 My annotations weren't pretty but they meant something to me
I love writing on the actual book and sometimes drawing. It shows the book was loved and it adds soul to the paper, in my opinion, haha. Kinda like scuffed up shoes. You see them and you know they've been properly worn and loved
personally i like a shit ton of tabs in books, and i love organizing them too! the song of achilles was the first book i've ever annotated, and i had so much fun with it! i also like to put my own comments like "aww" or "WHAT THE FUCK???"
I love to pop sticky notes in my books and write whole paragraphs on specific points or the syntax. If it’s an educational book, I like to add my own little cliff notes as if I were teaching this subject to someone else so I can better understand it. I also like to highlight vocabulary words I don’t know and compile them at either the front or back of the book so I can try to learn them.
same, I feel like I would only make it look worse and I’m honestly kinda sad there’s so place I know of that specifically sells used annotated ones because I find it so pretty!
I'm sorry, absolutely no hate to people who do write/highlight/underline in their books, but I personally just cannot justify making any kind of annotation in my book aside from putting tabs on. If I need to write something about it, like a burning theory I have, I put it in the 'My Comments' section of my reading journal. For me personally it feels so wrong to write in books. Also, (this is a legitimate question) can somebody please tell me how they can re-read their books when it's all highlighted and written in and underlined? I know that on the first reading of the book it helps readers slow down and appreciate the book more (hence why I put in tabs) but what if it's an amazing book and you want to re-read it? Don't people get distracted by the colours?
Personally I mostly annotate my books on a second reread because annotating all the books I read is a pain so I only reserve it to my favorite books that I do reread. And no, those underlines, writing, highlights or bookmarks do not distract me from reading at all!! It actually makes me happy reading past me comments or my past impression of that scene. It adds more to my experience and it makes it absolutely fun!! Edit to add: this comes from someone who is NOT neat or aesthetic or has beautiful writing, my fave books look messed up and crazy in some pages but because all that matters is my reading experience and that its my book idc
To me having someone else annotate your book makes it less personal. It’s not your brain that you’re lovingly inserting at different points. On the other hand, I absolutely love coming across annotations from past book owners because it’s a peek into their brain! I guess it just depends on what annotating means to you
Also...i only ever dares to use pencils and some sketches on blank pages in there...its a terrible feeling when you write over or beside texts lol with pens!! Nooooo!! As an English major, I feel the urge to treasure the books and keep them in their best state possible..
Half of me doesn't like the idea of writting/drawing on a book but the other half loves annotating and expressing my thoughts My annotations are very minimal, but hella cheotic
I feel like books are my comfort and when I read them, I actually just want to lie down and relax because I feel like annotating is a lot of work and it will not let me relax and read my book
i don't annotate as such, but when i find a dialogue or a paragraph or anything that i really like, i slightly dog ear a tiny corner of the page to remember it. i don't like marking the pages directly, so i've been using this method for a while. tbh i find book annotations beautiful in any way. it's like the people who read those books left a piece of them on the pages and really LOVED the book, it's just so nice (also i'm waiting for all the "omG dOg EaRiNG iS bAd HoW cOUlD yOu" people to attack me rn)
4:40 So... you are never going to reread that book again. Or loan it to anyone. I'm all for playlist notes, reactions, all that, but it shouldn't disturb the reading experience. Get a jar of rubber cement and make your own post-its the exactly right size and shape and color and pattern :-D You could even print pages with your dream cast on it.
Here is what I mark in books Yellow- gay Orange- I have something to say Light green- I want this Dark blue- sad Purple- you’re making me angry Dark green- Honey stop Pink- ok I’m in love/ I ship Light blue- cute Dark (like really dark read)- love is in the air
I cant relate to people who only do tiny notes on books or think it “ruins it”. I love scribbling and making random notes or even full blown descriptions- and analyzing a bunch on my books. I think it makes it personal and mine. I love letting out those feelings of excitement or anger or sadness right next to the text. The first book I ever annotated in was the sorcerer’s stone and I was only nine years old. I reread it as a sixteen year old and I think it was so surreal and fun to see my own thoughts and how much I have grown up. If you’re reading this, scribble all yours thoughts. Future you will love it. Remember that it’s just paper and that it’s not that deep.
Personally I just underline and writes things but I don't do tabs because I never know how to do them and I feel like it will take too much time lol but who knows maybe in the future I'll finally use tabs
my english literature teacher is living rent-free in my head at this point and had me obsessed with characterization in sentence structure n stuff, so here am i trying to get back into reading. I love this teacher so much istg
Isn’t that just a wast of energy and distract your attention form engaging deeply with the book? I think if i do this and try to match stickers by color I would be annoyed by reading at all 😂😭 though i like to put my thoughts in the margins but I wouldn’t care if they are neat or messy because this is not the point at all in my case.
As former literature student its a habit,sometimes people annotating for motivated them to read more :) its making them feels smart,i love seeing them happy and love their books so much that they annotating it :)
I don’t like putting tabs on my books because I’m a little grossed out by the idea of putting glue on my book but I love annotating so I just highlight underline and write stuff in the edges and sometimes when I wanna write like a lot but tere isn’t any space on the page I go and write at the end of the chapter cuz there’s usually space there. I’m the very rare scenario that there’s no space there either I’ll just slap on a sticky note and call it a day
I annotate but not for the aesthetic lol. Not that that’s bad. I’m an English major and when I annotate I like annotating with a purpose-or just finding lines I like in books. I don’t always annotate. Sometimes I don’t really see a need to. I try to only annotate when something is important to me, or is necessary for my understanding or something. I always annotate books for class, and doing that is helpful for writing papers or even class discussion as I can go back to my exact thoughts when I initially read it. Sometimes I’ll see something I may not have remembered if I didn’t put it down right there.
i actually started annotating books this year for my ap english classes but since they were from the library, i would add tabs to it and faintly underline the sentences with a pencil and then take it out, it helped so much
I don't own all the books I read and also I'm super precious and protective towards the books I do own so I've only tabbed one book (and it was a secondhand copy that was already pretty beat up, but also my favorite book). I prefer to take pictures of quotes I like and have a photo album. I then caption them with the book and author so I can later search for quotes from specific books. It's really convenient for me.
I didn’t get the “letting me annotate their book for them” .. what do you mean? You’re not having the same thoughts or feelings while reading that book.. I’d it cause you wanna see what this person thought they put the book ? Or am I missing something? That’s like sending someone a page and being like “write my thoughts”.
Sometimes people do that so they dont feel lonely! :) I annotate for my friend and she said she feels like she with me when reading it and laughing at my words :) she even give me her annotated book so i dont feel lonely before she's go to another country 💗💗💗
Me: I wanna annotate! Also me: NOOOOOOOO YOU'LL GET PEN MARKS ON IT, GIVE IT BACK!!!!!! Edit: I am annotating now. I color the side of the page a certain color so I don't use tabs that obscure my vision while reading and those colors correspond with a highlight I have on that page. I use pen as well. It's really fun!
I've been annotating books forever- so it's weird to see that anyone stresses about keeping it neat or aesthetic. :0 I still write outdated memes in my margins lol...
4:52, its not really a book at this point, its just a doodling sketch book, like its not even annotating..they are just messing up their books...why would you ruin a perfectly good book just to be "aesthetic".
I can’t wait to get into annotating. I can’t afford it now and I’m actually try to save to move but once I’m settled my dream is to buy my favorite books and annotate them as I grow old.
I plan on starting to annotate my books in my own way. Tabbing pages and writing my thoughts in an actual journal so I can keep the anxiety side of me calm and still be able to write my thoughts :3
I like the idea of annotating but I love reading in bed at night with my reading lamp while lying down and that does not seem to go well with annotating HAHAHA
My books need to look lived in and loved and I do that by dog earring pages and writing every thought directly in the pages. They’re spaces I reside in and they show my marks on every page
I don't like to scribble on a book unnecessarily. & Never with a pen, not even in my dreams. But those sticky notes are something which I'll do from now on. It looks cool✌️
@@lilybloomm my annotating system depends on the book and on my mood. 😂 1. each color has a meaning. I highlight some paragraphs (that are extremely important) , I underline paragraphs I like with a black pen and write in the book 2. I write in the book an underline the paragraphs I like w/o tabs 3. I use one tab color that matches the cover and just mark the pages I like and quotes and write in the book
I literally write a reflection essay when I read a line or a scene that I like and can relate to. lol... Sometimes I write on a sticky notepad but most of the time I write in my dedicated notebook or on my phone..
Ok but like imagine more than one person reading the same book, but at different times and each person having different coloured tabs to write out their comments...a comment section
