Does /lit/ annotate their books?
I have mostly switched to doing it on the tablet, convert the ebook to a doublespaced pdf with decent margins and go to town.
>>25013169Taking notes like in picrel seems to have the sole purpose of being aesthetic. Seeing comments like "oh no!..." and "I totally get you Mimi! He was the only cat to acknowledge you and was ..." What is their purpose? They make themselves believe that they actually deeply engage with their books. I take notes on a laptop. Sometimes I underline important stuff in books if it is too much to write down. If there is a good chapter or a good paragraph, I put a sticky note there. But I have only done that a few times. I don't to it for the sole sake of doing it.
>>25013169Words can not describe my loathing for people who do this. Utterly reprehensible.
>>25013169>Look I'm reading books! That's what smart people do too, right?
>>25013308And of course it's a woman in the pic. Only someone extremely female-brained could think writing "wow!" and other inanities in permanent ink and highlighting in bright colours aids in reading a text.
Yeah I annotate my Old Norse text files with specific uses of words that I've discovered through studying the dictionary so that when I re-read them it'll be easier Otherwise no, I don't see the point
only when I am reading in a foreign language I'm trying to learn
i dont, i take minor notes i guess bust mostly work on my own stuff as i read. i used to take more notes when i had more of an eye to craft, but always in notebooks. annotating never seemed like a good idea to me because you don't have all your notes on central or related topics in one or two notebooks which you can title with that topic's name. you have underlinings and notes in margins and you'd have to go back to the physical book and leaf through the fucking thing to see your notes. why would i do that, i would never do that. annotating in-book makes more sense if you're reading on your pc since you can tag things and use a search function. i guess you could do something similar in hard copy by making an index of your annotations identifying book titles and page numbers. that sounds like a lot of work.
>>25013169I don't get the point.If you're reading non-fiction that you're hoping to remember specifics of afterwards for a job or something, I get it.If you're reading fiction, I don't understand. What are you writing down?
>>25013169She is just writing "my heart" whenever something emotionally provocative happens and if something she doesn't understand happens she just writes "what?" Someone needs to tell her those aren't insights but just reactions and she can do that in her head.
>>25013169Only library books.
When I annotate, I write a lot of new ideas. I am adding to the text my own, higher-order conceptualizations. It is an exercise in elevating the material beyond the author's scope. Just the author = okay, plus my ideas = genius!
I don't take notes or annotate. I should probably start writing down my thoughts about a book after reading it though. I forget too easily.
>>25013169>indian
>>25013169Okay the notes are obviously cringe but why does she have a tablet with pictures of coffee? What the fuck is wrong with women?
>>25013169No, I'm not a woman.
>>25013916It's to increase whatever vibe the image is trying to convey. It's like those "people" that have pictures of anime girls open when showing off a linux rice.
>>25013169>King Tail really liked Mimi and I just hope Mimi realizes it. I'm just heartbroken reading about a cat being deaddo women really
>>25013169>lit candle in a bed
>>25013169that's so fucking embarrassing I wish I could break her ribs
EVERYSINGLESENTENCE
>>25014283I wish these fags would stop selling these books to sites like thriftbooks. Can't tell you how many times I've bought a book labeled as "Very Good" condition, only to receive it and the retard who last owned it highlighted 30-40% of every page. These weren't even hard books either, I've even seen this with popular genre fiction novels.
>>25013169This absolutely oozes narcissistic personality disorder with a very large splash of retardation.
>>25014320but anon, those lines once held a great significance to some vapid cunt <3
>>25013335>my first owner abandoned me>what???Is this rage bait? How can someone be this retarded?
>>25014338she means that it is very shocking and triggering
>There are anons ITT seriously discussing a stock image
>>25014349I don‘t think you know what a stock image is.
I highlight passages worth remembering which is useful as my memory is supbar. I love browsing through a book I read years ago to see all the highlighted sections that brought me joy or intrigue. Anything beyond that is glorified scrapooking for mindless automatons raised off of Instagram or Booktok.
>>25013169The full coffee mug sitting on an unstable surface is making me have violent thoughts.
>>25014352I don't think you know how the pic in the OP is getting made.
>>25014363Pussy
>>25014372Enjoy your bed full of dairy filled coffee seeping into the mattress, moron
>>25013169Most people don't enjoy the act of reading, but still enjoy books as objects or proxies for their materialism and autism. This is someone who cares more about talking about reading and being notional about reading as opposed to reading itself. Like preferring book clubs over books, this is just an extension of someone who cares more about taking pictures of food than eating.
>>25013311Ironically, Mishima is the type of guy who attracts that sort of guy
>>25013169Imaging being that woman's bf and asking her how her day went and spending the next 4 hours wanting a to kill yourself
There's no point in annotating and highlighting your book if you don't write your own understanding down.
Wrong, roastie
>>25014367No, anon is right you don’t understand what a stock image is. I think you’re trying to say it’s engagement farming and being recycled maybe even by bot accounts although your evidence does not really show if it’s multiple accounts or just one influencer wannabe recycling an image.
For non-fiction, I'll just highlight anything interesting or the main ideas of the chapter. It's mainly a bread crumb trail if I want to refer back to it later. For fiction, I just underline character names when they're first introduced so I can flip back to quickly because I'm retarded and forget characters. Anyways, the book on the bottom right is apparently the Last Airbender. Imagine taking detailed notes on that lmao
>>25013169I used to annotate more, but then I grew out of it. Annotating to that extreme feels like defacing the book. I only really annotate two types of books: for non-fiction (technical) books I highlight section headers and mark the page so I can use it as reference later, and for works in another language (Latin) I may notate the meaning of words that I don't know in the margins. For every other kind of note, I use a notebook.
>>25013169>Does /lit/ annotate their books?The ones identifying as women do.
>>25014406/ck/ is the naziest board on the site alongside /jp/I don't see how it's allowed
>>25013235AgreedWomen always do this shit. Annotating completely pointless notes in books that an infant could comprehend.
>>25014388I could dismiss this post as irrelevant.Instead, I will supplement by pointing out that annotation is a form of customization, like putting stickers on one's laptop or bumper.
>>25014390Because he's being marketed to and by unintellectual chuddy incel weebs, like Pewdiepie.
>>25013721that's called your diary desu
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>>25014790he's alluding to 2nd order observation, little leibniz. jesus fucking christ.
>>25014796More or less
Not with pen under any circumstances. For things you're studying, it makes re-reading and finding things much, much faster (if you do it right).
>>25013169>pretty little baby momentsAre women pedos or something?
>>25013169and women accuse men of "performative reading."
>>25013169I write in academic textbooks and books, because I'm writing in further explanations, other related books, and other details on the subject. It's too make my resources as robust as possible.In regular novels? Never.
>>25014575A stock image is made by a company for other companies to use.These instagram accounts shit out pics like these 20 times a day. That's because there's one company making the props, renting the "cozy" house, hiring the photographer and the editor, and then reselling the pics to the first few of their bot accounts. Then other bot accounts scrape that shit and post it on pinterest. Normies then save them to their "vibe boards".There's a bed pressed to a windowpane in OP's pic, anon. The curtains can't move because they are stuck in between. A 15 years old girl who reads those books isn't moving her bed multiple times a day just to make new pics for her insta. This is not a real place.
>>25013169>that brown handkek
