/lit/ - Literature

Every time. I love when pseuds also try to argue against the author, like in my used copy of Grapes of Wrath.

>buy a new book
>enjoy a new book

Writing on books is fucking barbaric. Buy a companion notebook or use a Word document for fuck's sake.

this is my favourite annotation i found in my second hand copy of leaves of grass

>>18937327
Hold my beer

>>18937338
it feels like that's not your copy and is an image you saved from 4chan

>>18937301
You are actually complaining that they are not autistic. There rarely is a need to do such things past the first few dozen pages, any decent author sets the patterns and defines the conventions in those early pages, once you have identified them you know what to watch for.

>>18937348
Just look at the file title, moron.

got one with loopy girly writing, pink felt pen, says things like "THANK YOU!" "Amazing!" and "This! This so much!". It's a pretty boring and unfeminine book too.

>>18937348
>hold someone's beer

>>18937301
Lol it's always the same. The silliest is when there's big question marks next to random passages, are you really going to re-read a book and think "good thing I marked that I was confused here, that's so insightful"

>>18937301
Truly a despicable act

>>18937323
I’ll make a small fold in the bottom of the page for things I want to reference later.

I just copy passages of anything that perks my interest into hardcover notebooks

>>18937362
>reading books linearly
You can flick back to the passage after reading forwards or backwards a bit and perhaps gaining some new information that will help you interpret it.

>>18937404
Based, but my handwriting is too bad to do this.

>>18937785
Write slower and see readability double.

>>18937404
What's the book?

>>18937362
it can help to tangibly see how you are now able to answer questions that you previously didn't understand.

>>18937404
ur trying wayyyyy too hard

>>18937301
Many such cases.

anybody who does anything more than bracketing pretty sentences is a pseud. unless of course it is nonfiction

>>18937404
>fanged noumena
>mao's red book
kek
pseudolicious

>>18937404
I do this too; helps me remember the passage in question, keeps my books unscarred/unmarked, and I can add my own questions alongside the quote in my own notebook

>>18937404
>He writes the whole quote instead of paraphrasing
Cringe, tedious, and burdensome.

>>18937301
>the previous owner of a book FUCKING CIRCLED SENTENCES he wanted to remember
>was somehow so bad at drawing circles it cut out entire other sentences
Fucking hell

>>18937301
>buy used copy of Mao Zedong red book
>first section has entire quotes highlighted and key words ubderlined with notes mostly consisting of question marks
>no notes taken for the following several sections
>get to the part "on women"
>suddenly the highlights are back

>>18937308
Who the hell wasted their time arguing against a fiction book?

>>18937411
I keep notes separately so I'm not searching through to find annotations. There's no need to scribble "???" when you can just make a note.

The concept of notes in the margin of books makes my skin crawl on a base level, but >>18937338 is on an entire other level.

>>18937404
>the average kenyan woman had 6.2 children
how do kenyans do it?

>>18937404
B-B-B-B-B-BASED I KNEEL

>>18938687
I do paraphrase some of the quotes actually.

>>18938683
I’m the pseud king, haven’t you heard? Pic related

>>18938666
Sorry for learning. I’ll go back to having zero interests

>>18938011
The Africans by David Lamb

>>18939389
You're the anon from the WA mansion, correct?Never stop coming here, you're of the few decent anons around these parts.

>>18939412
; )

>>18937404
Lmao is that an icon of Codreanu?

>>18939434
Yup

>>18937404
What brand of notebooks?

>>18939491
I don’t know, just search blank notebook on amazon. They’re 14.99 for 3. They’re bound very well actually

>>18937301
the notes upset me but I enjoy the feeling of reading past the end of the annotations and feeling like i've dunked on a pseud
sometimes library books are annotated though which boils my blood

>>18937323
Why would I do that? It's my book

>>18937404
I am sure that you didn't, but here's a reminder that if you took the time to place the rosary with the icon on top of the pile of blank notebooks 2 to 9 because you only wrote in number 1 you are a woman-grade attention seeker.

>>18939633
Or I took the top book off to take a quick picture. Ya let me grab number 8 when number 1 is literally ontop. And no, the rosary sits ontop of the books at all times

>>18939439
Based

>>18939647
If you took the top book and the rosary is always on top of the pile then you must have placed the rosary back on with the icon in good view so you'd catch it in the photo. Anon why do you act like girls on Instagram

>>18939685
Next time I’ll throw it across the room like an animal

>>18939691
>implying having a Codreanu icon is human behaviour

>>18937359
Could be a timestamp randomizer

>>18939741
Meant for: >>18937351

>buy classic book
>annotate stuff
>after first fifty pages find a digital copy and read it instead
>keep annotating the paper version, so potential next owner won't think i'm a pseud

>>18939026
i mean, fiction books are still capable of making philosophical assertions so it makes sense that someone might disagree with whatever philosophical assertion made in a piece of fiction just like one made in a piece of non fiction

>find full set of philosophers bibliography at used book store
>$2 per book
>all utterly pristine, were clearly never opened
Living near a third rate university is the absolute beeeest