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Do any of you annotate your books? Highlight, tag, sticky note, write in the margins, what have you.
Does it help with your comprehension of the text? Or makes noteworthy things easier to find when flicking through? Or is it some stupid aesthetic thing to make you seem smart?
I personally don’t but I keep seeing lots of people online with tags sticking out and highlighting passages all throughout and was curious on your opinions.

>> No.21699291

>>21699272
No. If I really, really, really want to remember a passage, I mark it with a book dart. Unless it's my own textbook. I'll annotate a textbook.

>> No.21699307

no im not a woman

>> No.21699320

>>21699291
Book darts sound alright. A lot less obnoxious than those thin colourful sticky notes.

>> No.21699349

No, I absolutely hate ruining books that way, no matter how shit they are. Even pencil marks annoy me

>> No.21699382

>>21699272
>pirate the book
>export and edit that thing using gdocs and add necessary margins + spaces (2 compartments in the rightmost and bottom of page does the work)
>print the finished piece in A4s and get someone to bind it
no I don't care about carrying some special limited edition of a book by some bulgarian schizophrenic publisher

>> No.21699404

>>21699272
No, and I don't like that my ereader has a shortcut gesture to do it.
t. Very normal edge of sperg spectrum that hates other spergs. It's about the feeling and essence, not being able to quote shit

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>>21699272
I write down what I like on a separate piece of paper. However, I seem to be very unlucky when it comes to used books at this point. Every second one has a bunch of highly questionable shit scribbled all over the pages. The other day I read The Scarlet Letter and every time the word "sprite" showed up the previous owner corrected it into "spirit".

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>>21699272
PhDfag here. I buy a lot of books so I can do this then I write out the quotes/and or type them up sometimes with my response based on what position I am taking for my research. The sticky notes go on my own notebooks usually though having to renavigate a book versus a few pages of spaced out relevant quotes in your own notebook creates an unnecessary amount of extra work. Which I guess is not important if you are studying 1-2 books at a time like I imagine the average /lit/ poster is.
>>21699382
Just wait until you realise that the translator/who wrote the new introduction can literally be the most relevant thing. Lol. You will learn this lesson eventually either way.

>> No.21699426

>>21699421
>Just wait until you realise that the translator/who wrote the new introduction can literally be the most relevant thing. Lol. You will learn this lesson eventually either way.
what ? is that a PhD thing ?

>> No.21699452

>>21699426
No it's an every level of study thing. But when you have a massive stack of books across multiple disciplines to read you notice it more and more.

>> No.21699543

>>21699272
I don't plan on selling any of my books. I write little thoughts and underline passages I'd want to find later. The notes are just for me. I only scribble and annotate non-fiction.