/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.10770719]

Boy I just love retarded notes
>hmmm yeah let me just write down word for word what it says right next to the thing I'm quoting
Pure genius

[Anonymous No.10770781]

>>10770719
Notes, highlights, page folding, or any other kind of book defacement is brainlet tier. Absolutely disgusting.

[Anonymous No.10771102]

>keeping a book after reading it.
Once I'm done with it I burn the fucker. No time for notes.

[Anonymous No.10771128]

>>10770719
that's nothin, someone wrote in my copy of mulligan stew in pen "he fucked her!" with an arrow to a paragraph.

[Anonymous No.10771129]

>>10770719
Copying is a way of processing information to allow for synthesis and internalization, and this allows for quick reference also.

[Anonymous No.10771134]

>>10771129
>not having a small notebook beside your book

[Anonymous No.10771158]

>>10770781
I agree with you, but only because I'm good at remembering shit.
I understand why some people mask notes, but I don't need to.
Also, hurting books is bad.

[Anonymous No.10771899]

>>10770719
My copy of the Big Sleep has one sentence summaries of what happened on each page. Whoever owned it at some point in time before me was a huge brainlet. And also a woman because they were disgusted by the flirtations instigated by Vivian Sternwood. In the margin they wrote "unrealistic!".

[Anonymous No.10771915]

>check out book about Foucault (after shitposting about hin in a /lit/ thread without having read him)
>" ... dawning of an age ..."
>in pencil, someone wrote the word "beginning" over "dawning"

Damn i feel smug

[Anonymous No.10771916]

>>10770719
>not just using a highlighter at that point

[Anonymous No.10771923]

>>10770781
What about sticky notes?

[Anonymous No.10772142]

>>10770719
That's the point of taking the note you concave headed mongrel. are ya gonna read every page again in case you want to find that passage? let's say you annotate several passages? it's useful for finding it faster instead of going through all the ones you marked. It's not an assessment, it's more like a reminder.

[Anonymous No.10772155]

>>10770719
>A shs for pruple cy from tiresmsm about sons life spew.
>"Only if he power cure to how him self"

[Anonymous No.10772172]

>>10770781
This. Use a notebook and don't ruin your books.

[Anonymous No.10773099]

>>10772142
>let me defile a book because I'm a brainlet

[Anonymous No.10773110]

>>10770781
>muh fetishization of the "book" object
good goy

[Anonymous No.10773132]

>find old copy of The Myth of Sisyphus I bought when I was 16
>open it and flip through
>note in the margin of the 2nd page
>"learn to enjoy life. smart!"
>not a single note in the rest of the book after that except for a page where I filled in all the letters with closed circles

[Anonymous No.10773434]

>>10770781
I agree, not because it's defacement, but because if you feel like you need to make notes it's because you're retarded.

[Anonymous No.10773571]

>>10771158
>>10773434
>>10772172
t. fucking brainlets who read for enjoyment and have never studied anything

[Anonymous No.10773580]

what do you think happens to all of your books when you die alone

[Anonymous No.10773597]

>>10773132

[Anonymous No.10773604]

>>10770781
>he doesn't read critically

[Anonymous No.10773605]

>>10773132
we truly are wiser in our youth

[Anonymous No.10773649]

ohohoho

[Anonymous No.10773658]

>>10773649
The mark of the fairer sex no doubt

[Anonymous No.10773731]

>>10770781
I'm always afraid that I'll write an annotation that my future self won't agree with.

[Anonymous No.10773751]

>>10773731
what's wrong with that?
just write a response you autist

[Anonymous No.10773763]

>>10770719
Early on in Ben Jonson's "Epicoene" one character calls another a "Wind-Fucker".
In the version i got from the library one person's comment on this phrase was something like "oh my!". Some other guy who had the book before me was so pissed at this, relatively mild, response to an admittedly unusual that he wrote "Its just a fucking word...typical sheltered private school education".

honestly those two notes made me laugh more than any of the actual jokes in the play

[Anonymous No.10773772]

>>10773763
admittedly unusual phrase is what i meant

[Anonymous No.10773792]

>>10773649
>Western God is Hades-Pluto

[Anonymous No.10773839]

this was written on the last page of a book I bought on northeastern native american spirituality.
I still don't know what it means but I like to think it has some type of mystical importance.

[Anonymous No.10773851]

>>10770719
whenever i saw dumb notes in a college book I put arrows next to them with comments on their comments in my writing. Mostly "wow what a fucking idiot" and "hey next guy who reads this, if you think this after reading this passage it's time to drop out of school you 90iq retard"

I never write comments in a virgin book.

[Anonymous No.10773877]

[Anonymous No.10773891]

>check into a hotel
>graffiti all throughout the gideon bible

[Anonymous No.10773918]

writing summaries in the margins helps you remember and find key points of the text easily

if youre studying it for a course (and probably reading it at an accelerated rate because of that) i think it's perfectly reasonable and effective

[Anonymous No.10775099]

>>10773580
Thanks for the post, anon. Since I'm antinatalist, I think it's about time I stop buying books, especially rares and hardbacks and start using the library and read the ones I already have.

[Anonymous No.10775103]

>book filled to bursting with retarded notes
>feminine handwriting
every time

[Anonymous No.10775155]

>>10770781
>he doesn't read with a pen in hand
not gonna make it

[Anonymous No.10775191]

>>10771102
>throwing things away instead of hoarding them
Once I complete a book I stick it on a shelf somewhere and never touch it again.

[Anonymous No.10775214]

>Buy a used book with real detailed and insightful notes in the margins
>suddenly feel really inadequate for never making notes in my books

[Anonymous No.10775227]

>find used copy of Ezra Pound's poetry
>clearly feminine notes throughout, one of the few books with notes that went past the 40th page
>she actually translated all of the greek, latin, and Italian bits
>comments were sparse and always insightful stuff like 'trochaic & iambic alternations for this stanza'
thanks whoever you were

[Anonymous No.10775323]

>>10773434
Nigga what. I make notes all the time because you can't comprehend every philosophical text ever on the first pass.

[Anonymous No.10775781]

>>10775155
I do. I also read with a notebook on hand, too, because I'm not a brainlet.

[Anonymous No.10775786]

>>10773731
maybe the stupidest comment in this thread, and that's a notable achievement

[Anonymous No.10775814]

>>10775155
>he reads with a pen in hand
pseudlet

[Anonymous No.10775865]

real shit inc
NEVER date a lit bitch who "annotates" books or uses highlighters

[Anonymous No.10775886]

>he doesn't use page markers and a separate notebook

[Anonymous No.10775907]

[Anonymous No.10775913]

The previous person to read the book I'm currently reading simply drew a line next to paragraphs or lines they felt were most impressive or interesting. They don't do it a lot, maybe a few lines every couple of pages. It makes the reading experience quite nice as I know which parts to give a little more thought to.

[Anonymous No.10775925]

>>10775907
why deface the book like that with unintelligible handwriting? jfc

>what does polydactyly symbolize?
JFC

[Anonymous No.10775939]

>>10775925
>JFC

[Anonymous No.10777033]

>>10775886
Is this what happens when you are autistic

[Anonymous No.10777041]

>>10770781
What about embossing?

[Anonymous No.10777907]

>>10773839
>60 NuIRseRy LooK Po2ie5
have to admit it made me think

[Anonymous No.10777953]

>>10773839
yes, a divine shopping list

[Anonymous No.10778645]

>>10777033
Yes

[Anonymous No.10778669]

>>10773839
for a second i thought it said "good morning kike roasties"

[Anonymous No.10778685]

>tfw used to follow a cute girl around town, not STALKING because I always stopped within a mile of her bedroom
>sometimes she dropped books at a charity shop
>used to follow her in, buy the books and read the notes she left on the pages
>tfw wrote my own autobiography, which was only about 50 pages long
>ripped the notes from her book and glued them into my autobiography to pretend she had read it and made notes
>notes didn't make sense as they were often explaining stories from other books but didn't care
>tfw carried that book with me everywhere I went for 6 years
>left it on a fucking train
>tfw someone probably found my cumstained autobiography covered in notes glued on like some serial killer shit

[Anonymous No.10778707]

>>10775886
Based

[Anonymous No.10778717]

>>10775939
> >

[Anonymous No.10778724]

>>10778685
>I always stopped within a mile of her bedroom
but you knew where her bedroom was

[Anonymous No.10778728]

>>10778685
Kek

[Anonymous No.10778805]

>>10778685

Thanks anon, an afternoon in this shithole doesn't seem wasted anymore after such a post

[Anonymous No.10778869]

>>10773132
Good God

[Anonymous No.10779439]

>>10778685

[Anonymous No.10779467]

>open book
>happy 16th birthday!! anon it's so cool we all found you as a friend

[Anonymous No.10779499]

>>10771923
Just put small stickies on the top of pages with lines you find extra+ worthy or rereading.
Before that I always reread whatever gives me, dat feel, and then sticky it if that wasn't enough.

[Anonymous No.10779502]

>>10778685
i love you anon

[Anonymous No.10779505]

>>10773132
kek

[Anonymous No.10779516]

The only acceptable notes are counterpoints, and in paperbacks.

[Anonymous No.10779745]

>>10778685

[Anonymous No.10779758]

>>10770719
>buy used copy of Finnegans Wake for $1
>notes all over each page
>until like the fourth page
>you can literally pinpoint the exact spot on the page where the previous owner thought "fuck this shit", because he just circled a phrase and wrote dozens question marks all over the page, pressing the pen harder on each question mark
>the last question mark sliced part of the page and ran off the top of the page violently
>i can picture the previous reader throwing his pen and the book

[Anonymous No.10779855]

>>10778685

[Anonymous No.10779988]

>>10779758
kek

[Anonymous No.10780551]

>>10775155
>>10775781
>>10775814
>reads with pen
ANNOTATE WITH A PENCIL DAMNIT WHY IS EVERYONE SO FUCKING BARBARIC

[Anonymous No.10780605]

>>10778685
>not STALKING because I always stopped within a mile of her bedroom
uhhhhh

[Anonymous No.10780754]

my girlfriend gave me her copy of The Story of Psychology and her godawful Humanities handwriting is all over it. Some of her notes are just lists of words she found interesting and quotes/references she obviously heard in a lecture that she wanted to google later. a few of the pages have literally 2/3rds of the page underlined. i unironically like her a little less now. thankfully, it turned out to be a shit-tier book so I'll never have to look at it again.

[Anonymous No.10780764]

>>10773751
Amen-o

[Anonymous No.10780779]

>>10777953
>pound pastrami, can kraut, six bagels–bring home for Emma.

[Anonymous No.10780788]

>>10780754
>she doesn't know words like "indolent" and "pervasive"
I could understand something like "sybaritic" or "cupidity" but jesus christ anon, dump that baggage

[Anonymous No.10780799]

>>10780788
>I could understand something like "sybaritic" or "cupidity"
Found the pleb

[Anonymous No.10780834]

>>10780799
Now I suppose it's time to bust out the internet thesaurus to whiteknight your girlfriend. Don't bother; I simply meant that words like "cupidity" aren't used with anywhere near the frequency of something like "incredulous." If you want to spend your free time with a brainlet, go ahead.

[Anonymous No.10780967]

>>10773649
eh, this looks like one of those high school classes where the teachers force you to annotate for a grade and check your book quickly by flipping through. I've written way dumber shit than that

[Anonymous No.10780977]

>>10780754
that's some roastie handwriting if I ever did see it

[Anonymous No.10780981]

>>10780834
Imagine being this autistic.
It was just bantz, I'm a different anon.

[Anonymous No.10780984]

>>10780754
if she doesn't know what those words mean already why is she in the humanities?

[Anonymous No.10780990]

>>10778685
>not STALKING because I always stopped within a mile of her bedroom

[Anonymous No.10780995]

>>10780754
>arbitrary
>innocuous
>pervasive
>increduluous
>tentatively
>amalgamated
>ostensibly
>arbitrary
>derisively
eesh

[Anonymous No.10781000]

>>10780834
>If you want to spend your free time with a brainlet, go ahead.
I suppose this is a warning for anyone who wishes to engage with you?

[Anonymous No.10781412]

>>10778685
absolute mad cunt

[Anonymous No.10781426]

>>10778685

[Sage No.10781434]

>>10780995
she didn’t do SAT vocab in 10th-11th grade very sad

[Anonymous No.10781502]

>>10781434
>"doing" SAT vocab
Why is this a thing that people study for
I did 0 studying and got 800 in the SAT reading test just from reading shitloads of fantasy novels
I never so much as touched a piece of "literature" in my life.

[Anonymous No.10781620]

>>10781434
who studied for sat vocab? I haven't really even read a book since middle school and I know all of them

[Anonymous No.10781632]

why do Ameridumbs have vocabulary tests again?

[Anonymous No.10781638]

I'm not gonna lie: I do this sometimes in my textbooks. Writing helps with memorization and it helps also with my tendency to go blank when staring at the irritating blocks of print. I can just scan the margins and get what I need quickly when reviewing.

[Anonymous No.10781641]

>>10778685
>qt writes me a joke poem
>treasure it for years and years after she has forgotten who i am

[Anonymous No.10781970]

>>10770781
literally everyone who agreed with you is a brainless thats never actually studied literature

[Anonymous No.10781996]

>>10781970
post-it notes are better than any of those methods and don't fuck the book though

[Anonymous No.10782658]

>>10778685
You know what? I believe this.

[Anonymous No.10782692]

>>10773580
They get lonely but eventually find themselves in the hands of a hopeful reader, who will be immensely thankful for their previous owner having taken such good care of them.

[Anonymous No.10782716]

>Library book about the modern novel
>The cast of Infinite Jest is described as dickensian
>Note: "Author claims Wallace is the modern Dickens"
>curvy handwriting so it must have been a girl

[Anonymous No.10782929]

>>10778685
absolutely beautiful

[Anonymous No.10782968]

>>10773099
>defile a book

Autism.

[Anonymous No.10782974]

>>10773132
hey that's my book

[Anonymous No.10783113]

>>10782716
I want Akko to become real.

[Anonymous No.10783585]

>>10781996
but they’re also prone to falling out and look less aesthetic

[Anonymous No.10783655]

>>10780754
I hate that basic-bitch rounded handwriting
reminds me off every dumb bitch i went to school with

[Anonymous No.10783670]

>>10780551
Why would anyone write with a weak faggy ass pencil, anon?

[Anonymous No.10783798]

>>10780995
I dont know what ostensibly and innocuous mean.

[Anonymous No.10783800]

>>10773763
kek

[Anonymous No.10783806]

lmao

[Anonymous No.10783860]

>>10783806
the ellipsis make me laugh harder than it should... it's like she holds her stupid confused female face for 2 minutes between them, thinking "uhh... yeah... wow... no way... damn..."

[Anonymous No.10783922]

>>10770781
t. brainlet

[Anonymous No.10783966]

I don't write notes in my books, but any time my family gives me a book as a gift they write the year and occasion inside the front cover. it's real comfy

[Anonymous No.10784162]

>>10783922
anyone got a transcript of DFDUBBYA's notes?

[Anonymous No.10784192]

I have a used copy of the Bacchae by Euripedes. Next to the part where Dionysius dresses Pentheus up as a woman and he’s primping himself, someone wrote and underlined “FAG”

[Anonymous No.10784234]

>>10784192
Most likely a butthurt Corinthian

[Anonymous No.10785163]

>>10770719
I decided to pull my old Ego and Its Own off its shelf to read the notes 16 year old me took when I was on a long coach journy for school (and had no friends). So far it consists of
>references to my fantasy religion
>the word "spoooooooook" written in widely-spaced capital letters
>"screw you Stirner" over the word "Heautontimorumenoses"

[Anonymous No.10785688]

>>10784162
One of them says " 'Go eat shit off a thick wooden stick.' "
It's unclear if it's referring to the Los Angeles Times reviewers comments or not. Especially since DFW put the marginalia in quotes. He's quoting someone but who? The book? Idk I've never read this Delillo book.

[Anonymous No.10786469]

>>10778685
>like some serial killer shit
>like

[Anonymous No.10786499]

>>10785163
>references to my fantasy religion
I'm interested.

[Anonymous No.10787051]

>>10770719

>caring what other people do with their own property that doesn't harm you in any discernible way.

[Anonymous No.10787657]

>>10780995
>eesh

[Anonymous No.10788603]

Why does Homer say "rosy fingers"? Does that mean the sky is red???

[Anonymous No.10788882]

I like to summarize certain paragraphs with a few words so that later when I come back to that chapter and that specific paragraph, I can read over it quickly it feels like I'm pulling out a drawer of files in my head. I only do this with course books because a lot is on the line, and often they are written like ass

[Anonymous No.10788943]

>>10781996
You can't fuck a book anon, it's just words on a goddamn page.

[Anonymous No.10789475]

>>10778685
>tfw used to follow a cute girl around town, not STALKING because I always stopped within a mile of her bedroom
faggot if you stopped within a male of her bedroom how would you know where her bedroom is
I call bs but still 10/10 story if true

[Anonymous No.10789693]

>>10770719
>find a collection of used books that were all donated by the same person
>handwritten notes to her husband are scrawled in the title pages

[Anonymous No.10789819]

>looking through used books
>decent copy of the Metamorphosis & other stories
>open to first page
>notes scribbled all over, literally "he turns into a bug" is written in a margin

[Anonymous No.10789916]

>>10787051
It's not their own property, brainlet

[Anonymous No.10790149]

>>10786499
Basically Hobbes but he's a socialist gnostic.
>>10788603
I was about to call you a retard and now I realise I am the retard.

[Anonymous No.10790306]

Bought this book months before ever opening it up, then turned to the title page and saw this. Thought it might have been printed on it, and thought it was a little on the nose for someone like Kavan. But no, this copy I bought used is just full of stupid fucking notes. And they're dense too, there are like 10+ on each page. Of course they end 1/3ed of the way through it tho lol

[Anonymous No.10790313]

>>10789819
lmao

[Anonymous No.10790539]

>>10790306
burn this gay earth