>>25454536
When posted like this its obviously an outflow of this performative studying culture some girls like to do where you compete for the prettiest handwriting with hearts on the i and multicolored annotations in your lecture notes and so on. But despite a lot of the effort being performative and superfluous, it does actually work going through books like this, just because youre constantly engaging with the structure and prose of the book in a way a casual reader isnt.

I've personally found one of the best ways to actually study philosophy is to summarize the work of philosophy im reading while im reading it, and continiously refining and revisiting the summary as i go through the book. I just do it in wordpad rather than with multicolored markers.

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>>25454536
>what do these retarded foids even annotate?

>>25454536
If you're old enough you probably remember the original tumblrinas getting into adult coloring books. I think, excluding the minority that do it to try to understand a difficult text better, the motivation is similar.

>>25454595
>foid thinks that’s actually his name
She’s ngmi

>>25454536
I never annotated shit on the book but the little tab bookmarks are useful

>>25454536
i do with pirated ebooks on my thinkpad x201t

>>25454536
You are now aware that there is a thriving market for pre-annotated foid slop on etsy.

>>25454536
I once dated one of these

She didn't read fiction
She asked me what I liked to do, obviously it was reading fiction, thousands of books
So she asked me for a book, and I gave her a short story compilation and told her my favourite
She returned the book to me sometime later, my favourite short story annotated (not a single other), because she clearly struggled with understanding the plot
And I understood
She'd tried hard to do something I liked but which was just too difficult for her, it was simply not how she was wired
(Intelligence and language was not the problem)
And I understood this even more when I dated other girls with other talents I did not possess
For example a dance lover who could put to shame any pop artiste you can name, whereas I can barely shuffle my two left feet 2 steps without looking awkward
Anyhow, that's when I realised that annotation is most often done by people who are struggling to understand, especially in fiction when there should be no reason to annotate for any other purposes (unlike say work reports which I annotate as an aide memoire)

In this and other things we were incompatible, and it was nearly a relief to break up
But I do still regret it; she was cute and I wanted very much to love her

Also I will add, women annotate and men don't; men will simply give up and go play basketball or Call Of Duty or something
It's not a problem of intelligence

what's this coppery thing in the bottom right? a diy abortion kit?

>>25454693
That's a nice story anon. The annotated books I've gotten have always been academic texts with what are clearly research notes in the margins. At most a used copy of something typically assigned in high school curricula might have highlights for a paper, but I've never seen anything like what you see on social media out in the wild. Women used to do this with their class notes as well. It really does seem just to be performative, though for whom I'm not sure. Is it supposed to be impressive?

Rarely you do get copies with actual thoughts scrawled inside, but when you do they're always a delight if only because they're proof someone loved the story before you did. It's a bit sad to see the ones with personal messages written to friends, family, or lovers in the covers though. It's like seeing wedding dresses or photos sold secondhand. The best case scenario here is that they were beloved before and have since passed on, but regardless it reminds you of the transient nature of mementos, sentimentality itself, or any material items at all.

>>25454708
an anchor-shaped bookmark for holding pages open, apparently. i assumed it was some sort of fancy protractor.

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>>25454684
I'm genuinely shocked. You can get some arthoe to scribble her thoughts in a book of your choice for quite reasonable prices. Even if she doesn't actually read the book and just writes inane reactions to random sentences this seems uneconomic.

>>25454737
>Harassment Architecture
heh

>>25454684
every time i think we have reached the bottom anon goes and digs the whole a few feet deeper
thank you anon

>>25454737
is this really arthoe? it seems like generic fanfic tumblr shit.

>>25454753
Is there a specific word for the arts and crafts etsy women who do this type of thing? I was reaching for it and couldn't think.

>>25454709
>nice story
cheers

>academic texts
yeah that's pretty normal
sometimes it's useful, as most textbooks etc are so badly written that annotation is necessary to pick the useful bits out of all the rubbish.

sometimes it's also clearly pointless, because
>Women used to do this with their class notes as well. It really does seem just to be performative, though for whom I'm not sure. Is it supposed to be impressive?
it is often the case that they struggle with understanding and they're trying to understand. annotation per se often does not help, but it's a symptom of their lack of understanding.

>>25454757
>a specific word for the arts and crafts etsy women who do this type of thing?
the technical term is "fucking useless"

>>25454684
kek you weren't lying, what the actual fuck

>>25454779
you're really making me want to go get one of my books out just to prove you wrong. people write some of the stupidest shit in academic books, my god.

>>>notes
i can assure you a good half of them were truly only doing that to flex on the their female classmates. women be neurotic. maybe another 25% were using it as a replacement for doodling.

>>25454796
>randomly circling and highlighting names with no further elaboration
...why?

>>25454536
I'm more appalled by how far back she bent the book on the top right. Who does that to their own books ugh.

>>25454737
foids make six figures doing stupid shit like this, you know.

>>25454798
For Instagrammable aesthetics that pays the bills.

>>25454797
>people write some of the stupidest shit in academic books, my god.
I wasn't wholly disagreeing
as I said,
>it's a symptom of their lack of understanding.

take >>25454796 for example
if the annotator is in earnest, she is clearly having trouble holding the number of characters and places and mental constructs in her head without having to write it down

some people are like that. their brains aren't wired for even this level of abstract thought
like me and my two left feet

>>25454536
>people
No, that's a thing women do. Like when they put stickers on fucking everything. They think it's aesthetically pleasing.

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>>25454684
Of course.

>>25454693
So that bitch defaced one of your books? wtf?

>>25454955
she wrote lightly in pencil and erased most of the marks, but I found a couple she missed, and then I knew to look for eraser marks too

>>25454798
She's a moron.

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>>25454953
Yes.

I found some old books that I annotated during my GCSEs and my first thought was 'why the FUCK would I have annotated that?'

Men strive to understand while women strive to remember; one doesn't require notes while the other does.

They think they understand the text better when they do this. There is the added perk that they can take photos of this nonsense for social media.

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Another thread of absolute retards who have never engaged with literature beyond the most superficial level making wildly uncharitable guesses as to why people might want to annotate their books.

>>25455003
I know you think you've won something with your quaint post, but there is literally nothing to be gained by doing stupid shit like >>25454595
>>25454796
>>25454953

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>>25454536
I follow this schizo Black Israelite couple (he gets very offended if you call them that, though) and even he doesn't annotate his Bible this much. Now I know he's specifically looking for and highlighting passages that are vague enough for him to say "JESUS WUZ BLACK, YA'LL GOTTA DO YA DUE DILIGENCE," so you know he's stretching every line. Lots of highlighting. It's retarded, but he's actually *searching* for something in that text.

But these white women... What's even the point? At the very best, all I can think of is that these are English teachers and these are books which they thoroughly cover at least once a year, so they really need to know then in-and-out. Even then it seems overboard.

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>>25455003
right. what is the charitable guess for question marks?

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>>25454684
> pre-annotated foid slop
But why? For whom?
Is it the literary equivalent of parasocial streams and vids, pretending your friend is reading with you? Is it another moid fetish like used socks and bathwater?

>>25455109
Performative LARP, my dear anon.

>>25455109
>Is it the literary equivalent of parasocial streams and vids, pretending your friend is reading with you?
partly, yes

it's also basically homebrew CliffsNotes for foids

>>25455054
That they have a question about it. That they want to revisit the passage later to form an argument against it or write out their thoughts on it, perhaps in another book altogether. That they want to mark the passage as an example to bring up in future arguments regarding misogyny. Those question marks might correspond to notes in a notebook of theirs.

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>>25454536
>that mug
While I hate this annotation trend, the mug + open generic Western canon book thing is what I truly despise. It's awfully performative. At least the dumb annotations require some effort. The mug + book thing though? Fuck that.

>>25454536
She's just larping literature to try to get fucked by a chad just like the 99% of the foids that do this kind of shit

>>25454536
What do people get out of this, what's to be gained? Is it just so you can easily find a good passage later?

>>25455323
If you actually talked to the women who do this, you'd quickly learn that they haven't internalized a single thing they've read and cannot hold a conversation about it whatsoever. It's solely for the "aesthetics", showing off her big books with all the tab things and posting it on social media in order to cultivate an air of intellectualism without having to put in any of the work.

>>25455003
Explain it to us if you're so smart.

>>25454620
"Old enough." Man that wasn't even that long ago, it was just short-lived.

>>25455508
The real lesson here is that anyone who posts a ton of shit on social media is definitely a faker who only wants to make money

>>25454693
>It's not a problem of intelligence
Lol, sure.

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It's performative
It's for aesthetics
Just like everything women do
No different than the retards who keep 7 different colored pencils or markers to do up "pretty" notes
Nobody actually uses this shit to study, they do it for attention
Just like how not a single person who has a big color e-ink display with a stylus uses it to take notes that they'll ever use in a meaningful way; these are bought by mid 20s to mid 30s white women who can't help but find an excuse to piss away their money to look interesting to strangers who hate who they are at their core

>>25454750
Foidal behavior is a grim Oak Island of performativity.

>>25455297
>larping literature to try to get fucked by a chad
That doesn't make ANY sense, since when does Chad care about the apparatus criticus?

Mind you, I'm not saying you're wrong. Just that that's senseless.

>>25454536
>>25454595
Am I stupid, I've never done this, and I don't get it? Am I being tricked?

>>25454737
>Harassment Architecture
LMAO

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Annotating text can be a great strategy because you're interacting with the text more. Posting pictures of your annotations for clout is, for the sake of brevity, gay shit.

Whenever I was in college I would do a paragraph summary of the chapter after I read it just so I wouldn't forget things. I guess this isn't actually annotating text but it's similar. Also, when I was in elementary school I was really serious about my AR points. On my bookmark I made of folded paper I would jot little notes to again help with memorization.

>>25455636
>you're interacting with the text more.
I feel like those who don't do it for clout do it because otherwise they simply can't interact with the text to begin with. They're forcing themselves to engage with it.

>>25455608
>Harassment Architecture
>"Imagine Catcher in the Rye, but not complete dogshit."
Is it really that good, lads?

as a STEM chad I annotate books bc (a) it helps me understand a proof / derivation of a formula, (b) makes it easier to re-read it (you easily remember what you had thought of it) and (b) bc most books on math are colorless and brings in vibrancy and "life" that helps you remember and understand it

when I read literature, I do it for the same reason more or less and bc sometimes I think a phrase or a thought was intriguing / cool and I want to highlight it to remember it (I did this with the bible or with Milton's paradise lost)

it's very helpful to understand a complicated text and keep it in memory, frankly

>>25454536
>when you put your annotated books together
Why? That's so incredibly mundane and innocuous. It's like going on here and making a thread that says
>when you post on 4chan

>>25455654
I remember that being discussed in one of my education courses funnily enough. You can get similar results to annotation by simply asking yourself questions while or after reading.

>>25454536
>annotating modern fiction
Wew

I tried annotating again recently and I just get nothing out of it. I always hope it'll help me retain more of the book and it never does. The few times I've taken notes on a book separately has helped with that much more.

>>25454693
>women annotate and men don't
how amusing to hear that Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Adams, Cormac McCarthy, and thousands upon thousands of others weren't men

>>25454536
Active vs passive reading.

>>25455919
if you need to doodle to read a book you're low iq

>>25454684
Isn’t that just the plot of Pale Fire?

>>25455919
Active reading doesn't necessitate writing in your book, using commonplace books was normal, you could also engage with the material by talking about it, but nobody here is social enough to have friends and none of you read so there's no threads discussing what you've read on the board for discussing literature.

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>>25454536
foids don't annotate anything. They just like highlighting stuff. Foids do it because they want you look at their gay smut book full of sticky notes and think, "Wow, she must be really smart. Look at all those thoughts she had while reading that book!"

I say this as someone who actually does annotate books to improve my own writing. I don't use a highlighter, I don't use tabs. I just use a pen. There is no need for all the nonsense women use except they want their books to look stuffed full of notes. I doubt they even look up words they don't know in a dictionary.

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>>25455665
we can't all be absolute madmen

They treat it like a coloring book. They highlight entire pages in different colors and then underling and circle random words or passages, scribble stupid pointless questions and comments in the margins.

i highlight the important parts of books i want to re-read and know its worth it, that way i dont waste time reading all the repetitive dumb shit. This was I can read the bible in about 15% of the time and remember the books and stories

>>25455950
orange annotations
>scourging (whip as punishment)
>thwarted
>manifestations
>baby-voice
>phantasmagorie
>betwixt
>in her life, was-- what? -- not the mother's smile, responding to it, as other babies do, by that faint embryo smile of the little mouth, remembered so doubtfully

I just don't understand what she's using the orange highlighter for. I thought maybe it was for vocabulary words, but she doesn't know thwarted? Manifestations? Baby-voice? Betwixt? And then there's that long orange passage that definitely isn't a vocabulary word.

>>25454595
No, that's an ESL student doing that. I went to uni in the late 90s and all the Asian international students were doing that to their textbooks.

>>25454798
>randomly
It's not random FFS. It's obvious from the context it's the first time this character appears in the book.

>>25454536
I used to put index tabs on lines that I liked and thought I'd like to revisit later. I got tired of having to deal with a package of tabs though so now I just use notecards for bookmarks and write the page number and a distinct word from the lines I like.
As surely everyone else said in this thread and the thousands of other anti-annotation threads, pics like this are for sure performative social media stuff or stationary porn, but I don't get why people overdoing this makes everybody here overreact and decide annotation in general is bad. There's a middle ground where it makes sense and is normal

>>25455549
it wasn't. in most other respects she was clever and quick-witted. in fact her professional job was reading and preparing long masses of contracts, as she was a corporate lawyer
and this was pre-AI so we did it all ourselves, kids
she just wasn't into fiction

>>25455636
that's not the kind of annotation we're talking about

>>25455654
>do it because otherwise they simply can't interact with the text to begin with. They're forcing themselves to engage with it.
exactly right

>>25455661
>when I read literature, I do it for the same reason more or less
a lot of the fiction readers here (me included) don't need to highlight passages in this way
>I did this with the bible
this used to be Bible Study 101 because there's over a half a million words in the thing
nowadays few people read the Bible cover to cover

>>25455768
if those men annotated FICTION in the way women do, yes, it would significantly lower my opinion of their accomplishments
Coleridge and McCarthy and other jobbing writers excepted, because that's their work, not their entertainment; they need to analyse the text more in-depth

>>25456036
legendary post anon thank you for the chuckle

>>25456114
>her professional job was reading and preparing long masses of contracts, as she was a corporate lawyer
Did she annotate the contracts ? Maybe she annotated your book because she has an habit of doing it at work.

>>25454536
They peaked in highschool and miss their English book projects. Which is sad when you think about it.

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>>25456036
YOU FAKKER

>>25456312
>Did she annotate the contracts
undoubtedly
>Maybe she annotated your book because she has an habit of doing it at work
no, that's not the point
I annotate my reports too, but the main purposes are to communicate information to others, or as an aide memoire. but I don't do it for fiction, because I can remember the plot and details of a fictional novel without needing a physical prompt

she couldn't. for work yes, but not for fiction

that's my point, reading a short story which I would do for fun was almost as tiresome to her as work, because to her it WAS work
in exactly the same way it would be work for me to dance. (highlighted for me when I was dating the dancer. she got off on it like crack and would end a session hours and hours later with stars in her eyes; for me it was WORK and more stressful than recreational. besides, I suck.)

which is why I believe that we're all wired different. refer Gardner's 8 Intelligences

and I believe that the more annotations there are in a book, it really shows the more the annotator is struggling with the content
be it reading for work or for leisure, you don't write notes for stuff that is blindingly obvious, that literally "need not be said"

>Have the idea to read a book and annotate it with my thoughts and interpretations
>Go through it and notice my thoughts are too long for annotations
>Don't actually feel the need to annotate it
>Even when I highlight phrases and passages I like I don't look at them again once I finish the book

>>25456328
imagine being so retarded you cant just think thoughts in your head

Annotating takes me out of the reading more than it helps. I find it odd because writers clearly don't intend for readers to engage with a text while constantly stopping and taking notes, in the same way old TV screenwriters did not write scripts for people to binge watch or obsessively pause and rewind scenes.
I have memory issues so I usually keep a very small notebook with my eReader and write down character full names and first appearances, but I wouldn't do that if I didn't have a fucked frontal cortex.

>>25455950
>foreshadowing earlier
Fucking hell. Didn't think it was possible to demonstrate illiteracy with words. Proof that people who do this are merely performing as intelligent.

>>25456114
>if those men annotated FICTION
much of what they annotated was fiction, but setting that aside
>in the way women do
this is obviously the key issue
average-girl "annotation" is just a coloring exercise, not an exploration of ideas or arguments, or the book's literary or linguistic mechanisms, or notes about how some part of the text relates to other parts of the text or to other works, etc.

>>25456401
>exploration of ideas or arguments
>the book's literary or linguistic mechanisms
>how some part of the text relates to other parts of the text or to other works, etc.
oh I think they try to
it's just that the notes they make are so shallow that we are all dumbstruck that it needs annotation at all

for example, in >>25455950
>scourging, thwarted, manifestations, uprooted, phantasms, betwixt
clearly the annotator did not understand these words, which betrays a certain vocabulary level
but
>as punishment
WTF else could whipping be for?!
>symbolic of how it provokes
nothing symbolic at all in the highlighted passage
>she reacts with hostility
the shallowest interpretation of this passage, in fact merely restating and summarising the text
here it is the lack of notation that betrays the reader totally missed the more meaningful point:
>there was at least an intelligible earnestness in the mood; instead of the fitful caprice
and
>All this enmity and passion had Pearl inherited

most of the margin notes are unintelligible, but
>it was inexpressibly sad
>somber
gee, you don't say?!

>>25455962
Hehehehe. Fucking Dean, man. W*men wouldn't get it.

>>25455985
That's the end of chapter 4, beginning of chapter 5.
Bingley is first mentioned in chapter 1.
William Lucas is first mentioned in chapter 1.
Lady Lucas is first mentioned in chapter 1.
Darcy is first mentioned in chapter 3.
Want to share more of your retardation with the class?

>>25454536
What is that little instrument below her coffee? Genuinely curious

>>25456797
An intrauterine device.
It's a tool to keep a book open.

>>25456114
>reading comprehension on /lit/
I'm vouching for this form of annotation even if it's not my preferred way of interacting with text. We all know prissy annotation with 5 colors of highlighter and washi tape is performative for social media. What else is there to talk about on the subject

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>>25456036
cite your sources faget

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>>25457238

>>25457241
>Anonymous
^
|
His name

>>25457293
#SayHisName

>>25455950
This fucking thing looks like A Humument.

>>25457298
Anonyous Lives Matter

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>>25454684
Un-fucking real. I'm certain their customer base is the "dark academia" and "hot girls read" crowds.

>>25455003
Annotation is fucking heresy. If you want to make notes, use a notebook. It also makes that book inextricably tied to the person doing the annotation. When I buy a used book it is so annoying to read with the last owner's scribbles all over.

>>25454693
I annotate lightly, just a curly bracket to indicate sections I like or want to quickly find later, occasionally with a quick identification note. Sometimes I'll write a quick note at the start of a longer important sequence just to say "hey, this is where that bit starts."

All of it is in the service of just being handy reference for later. I don't understand the sort of "conversational" annotating some people do with books. On re-read, I want to read the actual text, not my own shitty half-baked thoughts about the text.

It's not "foods" it's the modern reader. They need choppy easy to read sentences. If you showed them anything longer than 12 words they'll say it's clunky and difficult

>>25456036
>>25457238
>>25457241
It takes so long I haven't been able to do it before a thread goes away, but one of these days I'm gonna set the type for a response to a /lit/ post. Yes, I have a letterpress and I know how to use it.

>>25454536
women operate on a higher plane of intuition you don't truly understand what it means to be a woman or how to think like one, because you remain trapped in the labyrinth of the male ego...just sad, so sad, um i really think the insecurity seeps through in these threads really fierce and its primitive and not cute

>>25458197
tits or stfu

>>25454684
FUCK YOU

>>25454737
Please please please someone do this with Industrial society and it's consequences

>>25454536
The only time I annotated my books was when I was writing my bachelor's paper and I needed to find passages to cite again later

I don’t annotate, because I’ll never read them. I do, however, write notes that I’ll never read in OneNote

>>25454737
dick ratings for the thinking mind

>>25458278
>shlicking mind
ftfy

The only time I’ve ever felt compelled to highlight anything was when I was comparing the last chapter of the 2 most popular English storm of steel translations and since marking real books is retarded I just downloaded pdfs of each and did it in paint dot net, if you annotate your books you better show me the essay you wrote

>>25458057
true. i assume so anyway. this sentence was more than 12 words so tl;dr

https://hscollegebound.com/PDFs/How-to-Mark-a-Book.pdf

It's aspirational, like organisation content. They probably have affiliate links for stationary supplies.

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>>25455636
>Also, when I was in elementary school I was really serious about my AR points.

I always had the highest AR score in my class, and I never took notes. I doubt that really helped, especially given the fact that most AR related materials were fiction. It's fun to highlight passages you enjoyed though, I do that in most of my paperbacks.

>>25454536
Outing myself as an old retard but back in the 90s in high school there was always one chick in class who would take four hours for a 20 minute standardized reading test, using multiple colored highlighters.

>>25454737
Can't decide if Mein Kampf or Finnegans Wake would be funnier

>>25455003
You don't need to scribble in your book to seriously engage with literature. Simply thinking about what you read will do the trick.

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>>25457241
Just post the combined version you faggyfag.

>>25455950
>I doubt they even look up words they don't know in a dictionary
If you are an adult who still don't know essentially all the words in your native language or can't just understand the meaning simply by context, then you never gonna make it.

>>25454737
This is legit a pretty funny service. I'd avail it if only to get them to read D&G, Fanged Noumena, and such

>>25458517
>Finnegans Wake
>with baffled foidal annotationslop
Fug
I actually want this now

>>25458517
Finnegans Wake is definitely funnier. Annotation foids would reject Mein Kampf outright, but they will try to understand Finnegans Wake in an earnest way, and will fail hilariously.

>>25455109
>Is it another moid fetish like used socks and bathwater?
There's not a single moid involved, or anything sexual for that matter.
This is clearly made by foids to other foids, so they can read a book like they are scrolling each other's tumblr

>>25454536
Because like with anything foids do, they need to mark it up, and post it online. They do this with themselves, their food, everything. They are incapable of enjoying something alone and just for themselves.

>>25458562
Midwit

>>25458742
I don’t think thats the fundamental motivation. They like doing homework and they think they should annotate books to be a “close reader” because they learned it in school (and the pretty booktok girls do it too!). They’re probably following the same common core rubrics they forced us to comply with in 9th grade English class. There’s tens of thousands of lumpy crochet women highlighting books and never showing them to anyone at all. You could put the median woman in a spaceship in an interstellar vacuum to never be seen by anyone again and she would cutely highlight and scribble every piece of writing available and sticker every surface.

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>he doesn't annotate his books

>>25458863
>she can't remember what she reads

>>25458742
Yeah I hate when women write all over their food

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>>25458868
>he reads

>>25458885
Don't take it so literally, faggot.

>>25458782
>still need to use the dictionary to learn big words like baby's first reading
I'm not the midwit here

>>25458899
So sensitive lol

>>25459063
There are over one million words in the English language
>just know them all!!!!
Yeah ok. Einstein over here no longer looks up any word. You must be very smart.

What's wrong with annotating? I don't write in mine. I just put those pointy sticky notes on certain parts (colored for certain things like themes) with a number and reference it in a notebook.

>>25459098
>There are over one million words in the English language
Most of them are derivates from other words. As I said, you can easily understand them by context (if you are a fully literate adult, of course).
>Yeah ok. Einstein over here no longer looks up any word. You must be very smart
Yes, I am. Thank you for noticing, you are not the first one.

>>25454536
Personally I never saw the use in annotation, but I did highlight plenty of my textbooks whilst going through university. It made studying a lot easier. As anyone who's gone through textbooks knows that they're full of fluff and useless text, so when you're going back to study for exams you can safely skip the irrelevant parts.

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If you averaged less than one annotation per page, you didn't read the book.

>>25458812
>lumpy crochet women
lmao
brutal, but real

>>25454693
>It's not a problem of intelligence
women are braindead dude,stop being a simp

>>25459671
sovl

>>25459671
Dream Theater moment

>>25459986
>Dream Theater moment
More like Yes moment

>>25455768
Yes

>>25455768
>most men don't do X
>But Mr. Y does

>>25460054
One might say that you get up... and you get down

>>25458885
Women can't eat before taking a pic and posting it online. It's a religious ritual for them.

>>25458742
>They are incapable of enjoying something alone and just for themselves.
If its not socialized it doesn't exist

>>25454536
Annotation is not gendered. Women often do things men don't that are just smarter, because they're not cucked by the anti-intellectualism of machismo.

>>25460761
I love religious women

>>25460761
It's a hobby and an excuse to use the electronics in their hands.
Same as you and posting online. Not ever man does this, not every woman does that.

>>25461432
>>25461396
show tits or shut the fuck up

>>25461432
>Not everY man does this

>>25461569
This isn't /b/, tard.

>>25461591
womens opinions are equally worthless on every board slut

>>25461599
Many are saying this!

>>25454737
More nauseating than a Chinese industrial accident LiveLeak video.

>>25461396
if you were smart you'd be able to read without having to scribble down notes to help you understand

>>25454536
post its are great for highly frequented pages

>>25461396
When was the last time you talked to a woman in real life? Almost everything is """gendered""" to some degree even when outcomes are ~equitable to the satisfaction of zealots like yourself.

>>25461599
>womens opinions are equally worthless on every board slut
you are a LOSER!
anywho, i sometimes carry a pen with me while i read just to underline phrases that i really enjoy. if an author uses a really cool unique metaphor i'll underline it just so i can easily look back and re read it.

>>25454576
Now lets see one of them do that to the Phenomenology Of Spirit. They don't have the guts.

>>25461591
cant tell if youre retarded or just a woman

>>25462248
>He doesn't know that not all men are online
You are a retard and we can all tell

>>25454536
stfu incel