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7056692 No.7056692 [Reply] [Original]

Do you take notes in your books?

>> No.7056705

All the time. None of my friends/family are going to read them anyway.

>> No.7056716

No. I take notes in a notebook.

>> No.7056746

Fuck no, that will ruin it

>> No.7056752

>>7056692
I'm quite dull and can never think of anything to make note of. I do underline/highlight often. But my books look nothing like the OP pic.

>> No.7056764
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7056764

>find out friend takes notes
>look through one of her books to see what she puts in them
>they're all one word descriptions of emotions she feels when reading it
>"Sad," "Joy," "Amusing"...

>> No.7056780

No because I'm not a pleb

>> No.7056797

>>7056746

It will ruin the book or the work within?

>> No.7056836

>>7056692
Trigger warning that shit asshole.
Literally shaking over here i can't even

>> No.7056849
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>>7056764

>> No.7056862

>>7056692
I used to have these tiny thin and multicolored sticky notes where i would write current thoughts about specific sentences or things i would catch, then i would stick them near that sentence. this was way too cumbersome and by the end the poor thing looked like a tranny mid-carnival in Rio. After I got over the initial materialistic notion that i would "ruin the book" I started writing in the blank pages at the very beggining and ends by writing the page number and a small quote with ellipsis for long esntences and paragraphs, or simply write "entire page"

it would become sort of like an index of notes so i can access them quicker instead of highlighting and underlining like a moron an not being able to find the part without having to flip through the book and luckily findng it.

>> No.7056908

I know that many of the most important intellectuals of human history used to do this, in rare books. But even if I'm in an age with million of copies of the same book, I can't do that. So everytime I take some paper and write everything there, and is a suffering, and now I'm full of papers all around in the house.

>> No.7056918

>>7056692
I'm not autistic, so no.

>> No.7056972

>>7056692
of course, never in pen though. I prefer old worn out books covered in notes to fresh new ones

>> No.7056980

I'm not a pleb, so yes.

They're mostly like what >>7056862 described.

>> No.7056988

>>7056692
i do it all the time now. with pencil on the margins tho.

>> No.7057016

>>7056692
That's for school kids. I don't read for assignments.

>> No.7057023

>>7056692
No. I don't need to mark my territory in my books like a tagger.

>> No.7057027

>>7056692
Yes, I fuck them up. It's only a recent trend for me tho, three books so far

>> No.7057082
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7057082

My copy of Finnegans Wake is pretty marked up, inspires me to mark up the rest of my books.

No longer upside-down.

>> No.7057279

Post your book notes.

>> No.7057312

>>7057082
How the fuck do you even read this?

>> No.7057321

>>7057312
With your eyes.

>> No.7057575

>>7057312
How do you even read Joyce?

>> No.7057608

>>7057082
That's pretty cool

>> No.7057713

I mark books that I have to teach. I used to hate doing this, but over time it's gotten easier and it helps me remember material for class. Plus, annotation is useful in college so it's good to model for students.

I leave books I read for pleasure alone unless I run across a very cool passage or line. I highlight and put a sticky note, otherwise I just enjoy being in the moment without worrying about anything but the story itself

>> No.7057721

absolutely disgusting

I never even wrote on my textbooks in high school and college. I would cringe looking at some girl highlighting entire pages. Might as well just read it in the time it takes you to underline every row you dumb cunt

>> No.7057755

>>7057575
Finnegans Wake is a bit different from Joyces other works fam tbh.

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>>7056764

>> No.7057840

If it's something I'm "researching," sure. But Not as a general practice, no, and never in books in their first printing.

>> No.7057952

i have a massive notepad document filled with notes of every book i read since last year, i also use legal pads if i'm not near a computer

am i autistic? probably

>> No.7058008

Yes, I figure it's easier than keeping a bunch of separate notes organized. 95% is marking/underlining specific passages so I can easily find them for reference.

I don't do it for all books though, and only ones I own obviously

>> No.7058052

>>7056692

I sometimes underline passages I like or write definitions to slang or terms that are thrown around a lot in a corner because I have a shit memory and don't want to be looking over the internet every time the word I keep forgetting comes up. But that's about it.

>> No.7058091

>>7056692
Depending on the edition, I will take notes in a work. I have a great collection of Hemingway's short stories and vignettes that I refuse to write in, but other works, including beautiful hardcovers, I will write in.

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>>7056692
Do you eat shit?

>> No.7058394

>>7056692
No, I take them in a notebook instead. Damaging the book is highly disrespectful towards the next owner. In extreme case I leave papernotes between pages but it's slowly damaging the spine so I avoid it too.

>> No.7058399

>>7056764
Apart from ruining the book, that's quite funny. You should try compute a graph showing the amount of happiness as the story develops.

>> No.7058409

I write the number of letters a word contains next to each word.

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>>7058394
>highly disrespectful towards the next owner

mfw he will never be the next half blood prince

>> No.7058415

>>7057082
glosses glosses glosses they are of no use

>> No.7058424

>>7058412
As long as I remember I never came across remotely useful notes left by previous owner. Most repeat what the commented text said, add meaningless symbols, underlines random sentences or share their emotion, which is of no help. I bought an old hardbook of 1930 and it's written “croix means cross”. Thanks.

>> No.7058451

>>7058424
Answers in math textbooks m8

>> No.7058571

>>7056692
phil yes literature no

>> No.7058600

>>7058394
> highly disrespectful towards the next owner.

you take yourself way too seriously if you're thinking about things like this

>> No.7058638

>>7056692
if im working on a text, some writing, i will drop notes in my source books. its an archive of sorts.
always in pencil.
but if i dont have a reason, i dont fuck with my books.

>> No.7058666

>>7056692

If it's a difficult book in a foreign language, and even then I use a pencil and write lightly.

>> No.7058695

>>7058451
I didnn't think about that.

>>7058600
Few likes their book covered with notes and you won't keep your books forever.

>> No.7060012

Does taking notes help your comprehension?

>> No.7060017

>>7057082
>cuckold's spit
>(semen?)
top cuck

>> No.7060041

In my copy of 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' someone underlined every single mention of flowers.

>> No.7060166

>barrow Infinite Jest from library
>all E.T.A. chapters crossed out in blue ballpoint Xs
Book was shit anyway so returned it, but still pissed me off

>> No.7060188

>>7060012
No.

>> No.7060220

>>7060188
>paying closer attention to and specifically focusing on something does not increase comprehension

When you pay closer attention to and specifically focus on something, it obviously increases your comprehension of it.

>> No.7060258

i take notes in separate notebooks but i like to find someone else's notes in ised books, especially if the previous owner was an attentive reader. to decipher the notes and keep track of their mind along with my own reading is almost a meta-textual game

>> No.7060269

>>7060220
I'm not sure taking notes significantly helps me understand what it is talking about. I chiefly write down the key points, thoughts and sentences, words or idioms I liked for memory purpose rather than increasing my comprehension.

>>7060258
There must be a large amount of notes to rebuild up the previous owner's mindset.

>> No.7060359

Yes, I read a lot of Lovecraft as well as Lovecraft mythos; I take notes, and then also do little couple second doodles of things like significant items or creatures. I am not very artistic and my writing is a chicken scratch, but it still lets my get my ideas out

>> No.7060404

>>7060269
Have you ever gotten phone numbers in books? I've found a few, but I'm too chicken to actually call. I like to imagine the qt who previously held my book and misunderstood the passages. Maybe I could call and help them learn to properly understand the meanings.

>> No.7060415

>>7060404
It never happened but some of the books I have was previously held by teenagers now aged 40 or 50. I sometimes think of finding them and give it back.

>> No.7060416

>>7060404

They won't like it. I once tried to track down a name I saw in a library book I liked, but the first time I called, after I told her that I found her name in the book and wanted to know what she thought of it, she just hung up. When I tried to talk to her again, she said she would call the police if I tried to contact her again.

Girls just don't like to talk about books with men. They'd rather just talk with their girlfriends about which character they want to fuck.

>> No.7060421

>needing to take notes to understand literature

>> No.7060424

>>7060421
>not wanting to see your train of thought years later

>> No.7060429

>>7060416
What book was it?