My current system is very critic-esque and not student-like, I wish I could deeply absorb and analyse the nature of a work through annotating it, especially with the help of simple symbols. Currently I underline whatever stands out or doesn't make sense (to me)
>>25250113Don't. One day you'll pass on the book to a used bookstore and no one will one to read your stupid annotations
>>25250113This pic just tells me that the woman reading it was bored so she decorated it like a colouring book.
>>25250113why do women do this with their books when they are literally reading porn
>>25250126Because they intend to post it on social media
>>25250115>>25250125>>25250126None of these are helpful replies
Mnemonics and memorizing the ideas themselves
>>25250133You should have expected as much with your OP pic. You’re partly to blame
I see shit like this, understand that the best students do crazy shit like this and realize that this society simply isnt made to accommodate somebody like me. I cant do it. I cant treat reading and learning like mere work, to be categorized, organized, and make myself into an inefficient machine. This world is not for me.
>>25250113that's scrapbooking, not annotating
>>25250194Quit whining, you big baby.
when did girls and women start using the word aesthetic as a synonym for pretty
>>25250113why do women scribble all over everything?
>>25250210In like 2014 m8
>>25250210Anything that makes them sound like they have one extra IQ point. >>25250213Puerility, vanity, and acting as though these “annotations” make them appear as engaged, intensive readers who knows all the characters (because she colour coded their dialogue) and all the positions in which the vampire billionaire werewolf fucks the mousey femcel protagonist.
>>25250218damn that long huh? looks like ive done a good job ignoring the neanderthals
Good morning I hate women
>>25250113My technique is simply making a mark with a pencil in the margins to remind myself to write about a passage later.
Trying to be original in your annotations defeats the purpose in annotating what you read.
fucking lel at the op pic
>>25250113Can't stand when I see women doing shit like this. They're never writing reviews or anything to justify annotating the book whatsoever, they do it just to decorate the book. It's like those girls who'd take notes with a dozen different highlighters, they're slapping all these colors on there to keep themselves mildly engaged. This also shows up in that adult coloring book craze.
>>25250113>annotation>critic-esque>underlineDrawings of flowers aren't notes, and your text highlighted in so many colors is useless.Real critics write; they don't just underline things.
>>25250451You love me baby
>>25250607The whore can't restrain herself from trying to use her sexuality to make people like her even on 4chan. Women truly are animalistic.
>>25250210since aesthetic was entered into the English lexicon
>>25250644grim and nauseating
>>25250113>your own header and footer notes>index items under the top right page number>page cross references>various ([{<>}]) >underlining thicknesses>highlighting only meta 'cutout' propositions in pencil>red/blue on second pass, red for primary, blue for secondary >margin symbols, descending subsections>bracketing paragraphs sections along the outer edge with a single lineThe main thing is pencil. Whatever the result, Tracking your read on a text, and the additional signage helps speed of retreads, retention, and recall as you can physically feel out places you have in mind in the text beyond vague chapter and page range intimations.
>>25250113The correct way is to summarize each page then each chapter. When summarizing a chapter you write down the takeaway information in your own words. You can then add questions, what’s unclear, things that support or contradict it from other sources.
>>25250147Aren't you supposed to clickbait with it
>>25250832>>various ([{<>}])>>underlining thicknessesGreat but for what specific purposes?
>>25250113I don't write in my books
Just read the book you fag
>>25250205Not really a bad thing in and of itself. I think it's kind of neat to turn a book into a project like this. Reminds me of The English Patient and Herodotus.
that's cringe but you know what's worse? commonplace books
>>25251807Isn't a commonplace book just a notebook meant for jotting down with information you find interesting or believe is good to know? What's wrong with that?
>>25250115I would
>>25251823the commonplace books i see on reddit are full of people (women) writing down astrological signs or just copying wikipedia entries on penguins or some shit they don't really seem to be earnest attempts to cultivate interestsunless the interest is astrology
I use the vocab formula for comprehension combined with the show formula of Whose Line Is It Anyway / What's My Line for a deeper analysis of the text than I can reach on my own.1. Clean read through. [1 book length of time]2. Dictionary definitions for iffy sentences. (Write the entire sentence down, which helps to witness the style the book was written, better than just reading it.) [2 to 5 book lengths of time] ,,- Blue pen3. Ponder and Discern if the text is just for fun or serious business, to decide which game show to run it through [7 book lengths of time, or about two moon cycles]4. Annotate the text against the naive critic. (John Daley, Drew Carrey) Write down questions and try to answer them without research [2] - Black pen in print5. Annotate the text against the satirist. (Bennet Cerf, Colin Mochrie) [2] - Yellow high lighter and green pen6. Read the text with the spider / analyst on the shoulder whispering doubts in your ear. (Dorothy K., Ryan Stiles) [1] - Red pen7. Annotate the text with the musician. (Arleen Francis, Wayne Brady) [6] - Black pen, cursive8./? Legitify the text against the living text marker who lives the text via mnemonic incarnation. (Commentary from a rotating guest seat). [2]9. Return to the critic for a final settling of accounts. [2]10. Reread the text. [1]11. Ponder the text for another moon cycle.12. Refer the text to postmodern analysis on Match Game '78 if it seems appropriate.
>>25251823Originally yes but as with annotations it becomes a thing of its own. Commonplace books serve the same purpose as OP, substituting real work. They are a collection of factoids for pseuds to rattle off when they want to feel smart. As OP they also only exist to be posted on social media. Tiny leather bound notebooks filled with indecipherable scribbles by fountain pens.Their usefulness is questionable too since they are from a time people didn't have access to books. They would go to a library and jot down useful information from books they couldn't own or quickly consult. Now we have instant access to the original work, why carry around inferior summaries? I doubt these people with piles of little notebooks ever go back to consult any of them.This is different than a normal study notebook of a specific subject like you would have for a college class e.g. biology where you take notes of names, dates, draw diagrams for better visualization, etc. which you constantly revise and consult in conjunction with many different sources.
>>25251904>This is different than a normal study notebook of a specific subject like you would have for a college class e.g. biology where you take notes of names, dates, draw diagrams for better visualization, etc. which you constantly revise and consult in conjunction with many different sources.I should clarify those differ from commonplace books as in this case they aren't a store of information but rather an active aid to the learning process. They are useful insofar as they help you retain the information in your mind
>>25251904>Commonplace books serve the same purpose as OP, substituting real work. They are a collection of factoids for pseuds to rattle off when they want to feel smart. As OP they also only exist to be posted on social media.commonplace books are a real thing that people use to learn, even if they also exist on social media as a purely aesthetic objectalso why is everyone so against girls posting pretty notebooks and annotations on instagram? holy shit. get a real problem. you sound like those boys who hate whoever their current celebrity heart throb is.
>>25250832Good and helpful post, I should get back to reading on paper
