/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.17736642]

*mogs /lit/ards*

[Anonymous No.17736650]

A thread died for this.

[Anonymous No.17736665]

so this is the power of fembrained autism

[Anonymous No.17736667]

>>17736642
>imagine wasting so much time and effort on the scarlet letter
sage

[Anonymous No.17736683]

>>17736642
This is stupid and you have instantly branded yourself as a massive pseud if you think that taking notes like this is even remotely sensible.

[Anonymous No.17736695]

>>17736683
definitely not on a first read, i'm guessing this is a high schooler or college freshman practicing their "close reading" meme skills or mining the text for something to write an essay about.

the only time i autisitcally pick apart a text like this is when i'm taking notes on craft for my own writing

[Anonymous No.17736868]

>>17736642
I knew someone like this in high school. The scheme was more or less as follows

red highlighter
>characterization, whereby the number of graphite ticks by the passage would indication for which character it was intended

>yellow highlighter
tone: she would write things like "severe tone", "scary tone", "romantic tone"

>green
thematic content, i.e. sacrifice, friendship, beachside properties

I'd have to dig around on LinkedIn to find her page, but last I checked she was working for an health insurance company and earning handsomely cheating terminally-ill seniors out of their meagre retirement.
>well, sorry gramps, you survived The Pacific Theater on some rickety boat serving slop to underage men, but now you have to let Mrs. "I-Annotated-The-Shit-Out-Of-The-Scarlet-Letter" rob you of your money while you die of cancer and she literally stands barefoot on your face. That's life!
>cue Frank Sinatra "That's life"

[Anonymous No.17736883]

>>17736868

I had my own system when I was annotating PDFs about Plato.

Grey: Things I question the validity of
Red: Things I disagree with
Yellow: Items of interest
Green: Quotation from a primary source
Purple: Quotation from Plato
Pink: Item of linguistic interest

It was something like this.

[Anonymous No.17736910]

>>17736883
Sounds alright anon. Her system was more vague and this was evinced by the fact that every sentence was highlighted in some form, plus the obligatory notes. She probably annotated A Series of Unfortunate Events or something. She sat two desks in front to the left and in the summer she wore TOMS when those were popular and sometimes she would take off, more like slip off, her TOMS in class and you could peer at her bare soles, dirty from the sweaty, leather instep. If the teacher (who looked a bit like Megan Fox with Down's syndrome) left the air conditioning off, you could also smell her foot odor wafting through the room as the boys looked at each other trying not to get horny. Hot stuff.

[Anonymous No.17736919]

>>17736868
cringe
>>17736883
based

[Anonymous No.17736927]

>>17736910
Why do footfags always say gay fake shit like this

[Anonymous No.17736942]

>>17736927
its not fake

[Anonymous No.17736949]

>>17736927
For some reason footfags are known for two things, one being cringy purple prose, the other being making up elaborate stories that any non-Chrischan level autist would recognize as fake. My theory is that they don't know when to stop the story to keep it believable.

A typical footfag post
>My babysitter used to babysit me and she would wear her shoes for 3 weeks and they would get so stinky :3 and she would invite her whole cheerleading squad over to make me smell their stinky shoes ^__^

Footfags and furries are really quite similar.

[Anonymous No.17736953]

>>17736883
red: redpilled
blue: bluepilled
green: based
yellow: cringe

[Anonymous No.17736955]

>>17736642
I don't understand people who write in their books, period. If I want to re-read the book, I have to read through all the notes and highlighter on the text, it's really annoying. I brought a book used for $0.50 recently, and the previous owner had underlined and written some messages in red throughout the entire book, so now when I'm reading I get interrupted by this person's notes and underlines. I like my notes to

The way I take notes is more autistic but it works for me; I split my notes for any given chapter into two parts: the main points/summary, and then my thoughts. I use the greentext markers (">") to mark key points, kind of bullet points. I don't know why I do this, probably because I'm so used to reading them online that using them in my notes is just easier for some reason? I rarely use highlighters, the way I see it, if something needs to be highlighted, it probably deserves it's own bullet point, maybe a sticky note on the page to help me remember where it is.

>>17736868
>>17736883
I like the idea of a color-based note system but it seems like it would be difficult at first to remember what all the colors mean, plus you'd have to mark up the text, no?

[Anonymous No.17736965]

>>17736953
green

[Anonymous No.17736972]

>>17736955
>but it seems like it would be difficult at first to remember what all the colors mean, plus you'd have to mark up the text, no?

I was doing this with digital documents, so marking up the text was easy and unobtrusive.

As for the colours, some of them ended up being used sparingly. You end up with about four colours, two of which are simply the highlighting of text from primary sources. It's easy to remember the rest.

[Anonymous No.17736985]

>>17736927
>Why do footfags always say gay fake shit like this
filtered

[Anonymous No.17737004]

>>17736642

[Anonymous No.17737259]

>>17736910
nigger how do you remember shit like this... i left school 3 years ago and have already forgotten 80% of teachers, randoms in my class etc.

[Anonymous No.17737349]

>>17736953
how do you anotate something that's based and redpilled? or based but bluepilled and all possible permutations of two atributes?

[Anonymous No.17737448]

>>17737349
Highlight with both colours and leave the text unreadable, obviously.

[Anonymous No.17737621]

>>17737004
I would cum if I ever get this many (you)s.

[Anonymous No.17737651]

highlighters are too expensive for my taste

[Anonymous No.17737657]

>>17736642
Just write your damn essay already

[Anonymous No.17737665]

Underage /lit/ users trying to do school work be like:

Based though, fuck jannies

[Anonymous No.17737727]

>>17736642
I'd never mark up a book like that. I have a really great note-taking methodology that is unnoticeable.

I draw faint vertical lines with a pencil in the margin to "highlight" text, with a number beside the line. In a separate notebook I will reference these lines like so: pg 145.1, pg 145.2 and so on. And write down my thoughts.

The book thus remains re-readable (I wouldn't take notes on a book I would only read once), whereas this book has been rendered useless.

[Anonymous No.17737928]

>>17737004
based

[Anonymous No.17738059]

annotating everything in that much detail on your first read ruins the book for you

[Anonymous No.17738252]

>>17737349
Like this.

[Anonymous No.17738262]

>>17738252
hello, keyed department?

[Anonymous No.17738281]

>>17736642
Amazon: "Acceptable"

[Anonymous No.17739612]

>>17738252
this is distusting

[Anonymous No.17739724]

>>17738252
based

[Anonymous No.17739829]

i can bet my balls that he won't reread this shit.

[Anonymous No.17739834]

>>17738252

[Anonymous No.17739863]

>>17736953
>>17738252
>using more than based/cringe dichotomy

[Anonymous No.17739877]

>>17739863
based

[Anonymous No.17739961]

>>17739863
shwayed

[Anonymous No.17740924]

>>17736642
I love women so much it physically pleases me