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dearlyjess · 1 month
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recent reads + annotations! a well-loved book will inevitably have scribbles and sticky notes and dog-eared pages!
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silverystardustt · 13 days
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in the web of life, things are more connected than they first seem
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✧ Love this quote ✧
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popchyk-oui · 9 months
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last year i spilled (it's not even spilled, it's as if i poured) water over my copy of the well of loneliness but it all turned out okay in the end 🤓 (i blowed dry it so the pages are crispy now)
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How I Annotate Non-Fiction Books:
Step one gathering supplies. The supplies you need will be based on your needs and the text you are annotating so feel free to fit this to your need or habits.
For physical books: highlighters, pens, sticky notes, page flags, index cards, the book/document
For digital books: your device or choice (might do an in depth post of digital texts later)
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step two- creating your key
For small documents, I tend to stick to one color (each of my classes are assigned a single color).
For Longer documents, with lots of information, I will create a key for example:
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keys should be based on what information is most important. In my history classes dates and names are more important whereas in a science class terms and chemical formulas may be most important.
You should also keep in mind why you are reading the book/document. For example: Are you reading to write a book report? Then it would be best to highlight the thesis and any points you wish to bring up in your review.
some parts of your key will most likely not need writing down after they become habit, for example after highlighting an important term, I will underline the definition of the term. (I personally tend to under highlight)
very important highlighted text will also get a page flag so that it is easier to find when reviewing, write a review, etc.
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step three- your first read through
break the reading into smaller segments, for example. if you are reading a textbook or information-dense book you may wish to use headings or subheadings as your guide for this. if your text is not already broken into smaller section resign yourself to summarizing after every few paragraphs
You can write your summaries in whatever way suits you, your habits, or the book you are working with.
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For this book I am writing my summaries in index cards, but I could have written them in sticky notes, or in a notebook (physical or digital.) I have tried all of these techniques and I like them all and tend to switch between them.
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On the back of my summary cards, I write the page numbers the information was pulled from so that I can more quickly find the information if I need to quote it.
Feel free to ask questions in the replies or in my asks!
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Doing a silly just for fun little read along with my friend, we're reading an embroidery murder mystery book, cosy mystery's aren't typically what I read but as we're both crafters we thought it would be fun. We're reading one chapter at a time and then talking about it on a discord call before we read the next chapter. It's fun and I definitely think we'll be doing this with the whole series, bonus is it's helping get me back into reading.
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a-study-in-dante · 5 months
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November 3rd, 2023 | Annotating game going hard!
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jesenslapetitemort · 1 year
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Hello, tgf fandom. (shhhh I’m not new here)
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calming-chaos · 1 year
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emeralddss · 3 months
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I am currently reading white nights and I would like to announce that I am officially a Dostoevsky stan
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max-reblogger · 2 months
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For someone who loved words as much as I did it was amazing how often they failed me.
Book Quotes #155 - If We Were Villains
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konyvtaroslany · 6 months
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"Do you blame Shakespeare for any of it?"
"I blame him for all of it."
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macaulaytwins · 2 years
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my hobbies include dressing up to go get a coffee, dressing up to go thrifting, pretending I’m good at school, writing little gay notes about the little gay people in my books, and gazing at the moon
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muppetkirby · 5 months
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you give me a pencil while i’m reading a book and it’s suddenly comedy hour in the margins
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popchyk-oui · 4 months
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Sometimes I go crazy with writing out my thoughts on books when I read but there are also times when I just highlight a little bit and tab them with 0 thoughts. Just highlighting them is enough for me to know that the passage struck a chord with me. Then I place a sticky note on the title page with my very general thoughts. So if you want to start annotating your books, remember that you don't have to go all-out! It's your book, make your own set of rules, and remember the most important thing of all — have fun!
To be alone in a crowd, apart and belonging, to have distance between what I see and what I am. - This is How You Lose the Time War
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Annotating Fiction Books
Here is a Link to my annotating non-fiction post
Step one for annotating is always knowing your purpose. 
For example Someone who is annotating fiction for use in their literature class and someone who is annotating their favorite novel are going to annotate in very different ways.
Your purpose can be as simple as highlighting/tagging quotes that you like or as complex as showcasing evidence for a paper you are writing about the book. Most of my suggestions will be for those annotating for pleasure rather than for class work.
The second step is gathering your supplies.
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For physical books this can be highlighters, pens, sticky notes, page flags, index cards, the book/Text For digital books this will include your device of choice (might do an in-depth post of digital texts later)
Depending on how in depth you want to be with your annotating you may wish to create a key, this can be remembered in your head, or written down in the book (or on a sticky note, index card, or reading log). Your key should be based around your purpose (as determined in step 1)
And honestly that’s all there is to it.
Here are some ideas of things to track while reading and things that I do for annotating bellow.
Using highlighters or tags to color code for different types of info (quotes, plot points, bits of the story you want to remember , funny bits, etc.)
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Matching tab/highlighter colors to the books cover
Writing comments around the text (in margins, sticky notes, index cards, reading journal)
Keep track of quotes that inspire you. For me this means highlighting well written lines.
Copying quotes and Writing in a reading log to avoid damaging (borrowed) books (you can also use sticky notes if you like the feeling of writing in books. They also make clear sticky notes so u can highlight or write on top of text without hurting your books)
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Using highlighters and an index card (or your reading journal) to keep a timeline, track lore, or explore the universe
Use symbols and shorthand to make annotating quicker
And remember you decide what is and isn’t appropriate for your books. You decide what is too much or too little annotating (but also keep future you in mind. don’t make future you distracted by all the annotations on your next reread, if you get distracted by these types of things, I find that if I over annotate it takes me out of the story on future rereads)
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