What is your experience with annotation? I see people on youtube/instagram with their books filled to the brim with underlines, gloating how much they understand and remember and how wrinkly their brain is because of annotation. I have only ever underlined a few things in a few nonfiction books and I feel like I understand the lit I read well enough. There's probably some memorization benefits to it but overall I think it's more or less performative bullshit.
>>25292658Borrowing a book and seeing that some faggot wrote into it with a liner is a sure way to make me mad.Underline your own printed notes, not public property.
Never really saw the point, but then i've never really engaged with a text academically either. I suppose it might help to record thoughts and observations about certain passages if you're writing an analysis of a book.
The only thing in the last decade which I've underlined is Aurelius' meditations, so I can easily find good quotes to share based on the given circumstance.
Feels especially retarded nowadays when you can just ask chatgpt or google anything you forgot
>>25292658>annotation>an/notati/on>anonI'm onto something here.
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It depends on what you read.Doing annotations about easy to read books is counterproductive.But it's quite fruitful when you are reading technical and complex books, they are helpful to fixate the concept in your brain (at least in my experience)>HoweverAfter AI, the thing I like to do the most, is to create a chat to specifically discuss about the book. I summarize what I have understood about the concepts of the book and validate my understanding and learn about anything that might be wrong.
>come on /lit/ to complain about people writing their thoughts down
>>25292890It's so funny to see people getting bothered by things others do and do not affect them.>NOOOOOOOOOO YOU SHOULD BE WRITING WITH THE RIGHT HAND NOT THE LEFT!!!
>>25292658I haven't annotated a book since 2012.Back in secondary school I had to do it, but I never wrote on my books. I'd use those tiny, colorful, sticky notes.
Depends on the book. I annotated tf out of my casebooks in law school. I would touch a novel though.
>>25292888Shut up about your dumb AI stuff boomer
>>25292917Codemonkey lost his job?
>>25292658I always write my personal notes about a book somewhere else. I will use adhesive tabs with notes on those, and stick them to relevant pages.
Writing down lines you don't understand or stuff you want to memorize works better than annotating
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>>25292663Samuel Taylor Coleridge did this to library books. He would write notes in the margins etc
>annotations Never end up reading them >writing notes on a notepad/onenote/google docs More useful but I have to do it after every 20-30 pages otherwise it constantly interrupts my reading flow
Structural annotation is useful; no one on social media has ever posted functional ones. You should have running commentary, cross references, Index topical words as sub headers. But if you do nothing else with a non-fiction work, score out the redundant grammar and bullshit. Read like an Editor.
You use a marker for interesting passages, with different colours for different characters or to differentiate quotes from the narrator or from a character.Then underline what's very important, and circle where you want to turn your eyes directly to.Write side notes for guidance and to summarize important paragraphs.
>>25294669I think I'm gonna be sick
