/lit/ - Literature

>>14649339
I don't get why would you smear a good book with markers, to be honest. It feels like having no regard for the things you own.
Personally, I like to write the quote if it is important, be it on small cards, in a notebook or digitally; it helps me learn and remember it easier than just drawing flashy smudges over sentences.

>>14649339
No, I take notes in an adjacent notebook. Highlighting, underlining and marginalia in general has been shown to be nothing but busy work; not at all aiding in comprehension or retention.

>>14649339
kys

No, I have a folder on my laptop full of documents for notetaking. Welcome to the modern age, grandpa.

I made notes in the Nichomachean ethics, but it was terribly ugly, so I stopped.

No I just write notes in the margins. Highlighter seems very disrespectful to future owners of my used books

>>14649339
I do it with highlighters for pointing out rhetorical devices. It's like a where's Waldo but with tricolons and chiasmus

Just use a pen or pencil instead. Saves time and preserves the aesthetic.

>>14650099
You mean it transforms the aesthetic of certainty with one's self and one's thoughts into an aesthetic of uncertainty, second-guessing, and a generalized lack of competence or conviction. Anyone who takes makes notations in pencil is giving a complete character profile to anyone who ever reads it after you, that the person who owned the book formerly was a complete bitch and probably a virgin.

>>14649551
that picture gave me cancer and my dog died

>>14649551
keep in mind NOT to add any relevant note by mistake

>>14649339
no, i love colour and it distracts me when rereading sections.

in school we were forced to highlight, i bought one in light grey to make it bearable.

>>14650117
>believing that anything is certain
>not recognizing the utility of margins
>not hopping aboard the postmodern train and embracing chaos
Absolutely autistic

>>14649339
Only if I'm writing a paper on it.

>>14649339
I take notes into OneNote

>>14649409
Shown where?

nooooo

>>14649339
I make very small annotations using pencil, so I can erase them if possible.

>>14649339
Underlining and annotations in the margins. I have a system for it with accompanying symbols so it works for me.
I also write the numbers of each annotated page in one of the blank pages at the beginning of the book along with the corresponding symbol so I can look at the page and go "I need to find the parts of this book that describe love" and find the page numbers labelled with a heart symbol.

It works for me. And if I don't want to go through the whole thing, I just stick to underlining and annotations for my own reference. They're my books so frankly I don't give a shit. Anyone who receives them after me will either inherit them or be gifted them by me, so they'll already know that the books will be annotated as hell.

>>14649551
You seem like that guy that talks while watching a movie in the cinema.

>>14651334
In his adjacent notebook

Anybody that writes in or marks up a book in anyway should be killed.

>>14649551
"what is a holding?" OP kill yourself

Only if I think i'll need to quickly reference those passages at a latter date - for example, if I'm writing an essay on the text.

>>14653849
Obviously this is some reddit image from a guy who bought that used and found the notes

yea, but only when i read on my ereader. i will mostly only write down good words when reading paper book or put a pg. reference to a passage i found particularly compelling.
this is by far the biggest pro for me when on my ereader is being able to simply see all of my highlights throughout my reading.

>>14653973
last highlight

>>14649339
no

Margin is the way to go, and the problem of ruining your precious book is solved if you buy an ereader big enough that has zoom option.

I use my Sony Digital Paper and I love being able to annotate on the margins of my books as much as I want. Much better than wasting time making annotation on a separate document.

>>14651137
always do so on purpose

>>14649339
Some books are so good you have to highlight ever word.

I bought an used copy of Brothers Karamazov that haves a drawing of a bear in that part where Dimitri throws a party at Gruschenka house

no i write in pen and argue with the author

>>14649339
From Thus Spoke Zarathustra

>>14649339
No, I write notes on a scratchpad.
Stop defiling books you fucking heathens

Considering getting one of these

>>14649551
based

>>14649551
retarded notes made me laugh good thank u

>>14654998
that's really great
>>14655034
based

>>14654982
Overbased. Some books just need to be entirely memorized!

>>14649551
pretty funny

>>14649339
sometimes

sometimes i'll make annotations in pencil as well

>>14649339

Marking books in any way is purely a method of making others think you're intelligent.

no but I sometimes use a pen to draw an arrow in the margin to the start of a line or paragraph I thought was funny or carried significance to me

>>14649339
Notes, highlights, underlining, writing in the margins, ect. Yes, all of it. I actually really like it when a book I'm reading has stuff like that. I know it's a one of a kind edition. It's very personal and endearing.

>>14649339
Yes I do, but it's on my Kindle. I wish I could share passages on Facebook without having to go into the app on my phone and copy/passting from my cloud of notes

>>14649551
unfathomably based

>>14649551
based retard

>copy and paste relevant passage to text file
>write notes

Why would you write on your monitor anon?