It’s not how they taught us to annotate in school, or anywhere else. It depends on the person and the book, but personally I love going back to reread some books! I only want to reread certain parts of them, so I mark those. Like if I was feeling down I’d go to the happy part, if I simply enjoyed the book I’ll go to the interesting parts, or sometimes just to mark how much I read in a certain amount of time! And different colours for each.
I new some people would put (sticky) notes in it but never expected them to actually reread it… Though tbh so far I’ve never read a book twice, since the whole surprise element is gone..
not colour coding the tabs absolutely freaks me out lmaooooo I usually choose a colour for each theme/topic i tab and try to match them to the cover as best i can
Hi. I have been using tabs but i only put them in to mark what i want because colour coding makes me feel a little nervous. I want to ask how do you know which themes you are looking out for if you haven't read the book yet?
@@raina2319 sometimes i annotate on a reread, sometimes i read the plot synopsis and pick really vague themes (things such as development of a relationship if it’s a romance book) and I also sometimes add to my themes as I read i usually start off annotating in pencil for 50-100 pages then I go back and colour code once I have more of an idea of what I’m looking for
@@artezzzz Same, I don't annotate nothing (or anything, for y'all grammarians). If I want to reread, I either read the whole book again OR i frantically search for the part I liked a lot. Sometimes I bookmark it and then write it down somewhere.
I wish books made me cry. I’ve never cried despite the deaths and sad scenes I’ve read. Never shed a tear. It’s annoying. I want to feel the ultimate emotion while reading :( Edit: I heard that “If He Had Been With Me” was a good book that makes people emotional, so I got it. Idk when I’m going to read it. I have 500 books on my nightstand rn, but I think I’ll read it after I finish reading a book for one of my classes, which I should finish today or tomorrow. I hope I cry. Wish me luck lol.
read ugly love by colleen hoover. trust me. you will cry because the devastation you will have. read it!! but its laid out so well, the people the time, the main character. extremely relatable. it gives you something to cry and want to scream at the top of your lungs in happiness. 💗
Finally, someone like me who tabs using whichever colour they feel like at the moment. I tried the whole “specific coloured tab for specific theme” - but I found I was going through one type of colour so swiftly while barely using the rest, that I ended up spending a LOT on new tab strips.
I love this! I was just now tabbing without color coding (for the aesthetics) and only tabbing if I WANT to come back to this page or passage. I’m so glad the first video I watched said the exact same thing! No need to stress yourself about reading for fun! ❤😇✨
Here's how I annotate all my books. I just rip out all the pages I don't want, and keep the ones I do. It's alot easier this way! Plus you don't have to spend money on tabs ;)
Thank you so much I’ve been trying to figure this out for weeks me and my sister well my sister mainly are book lovers I am starting to read more and more books and I’ve been wanting to try this❤❤❤
I read only horror pretty much. This is how I annotate. Orange: Fucked up scene/something that rose an emotion out me Pink: Relationship/other Yellow: Important information/Plot Information Green: Quotes / good writing Blue: Character development/mindset Always colour code if you can. Makes more sense
I tab my books the same way: anytime I laugh, smile, or cry. The problem is, almost all the books I read have super snarky and like sarcastic characters with lots of trauma (also, I'm a very emotional person), so I end up having tabs on almost every page and then it's not really worth it anymore
I just started doing that to my last book and I just realized how much easier to go back and reread my favorite parts. Normally I struggle looking through all the pages because I can’t find the part I want to reread.
I do this! I wish I had colors corresponding with certain events but I always run out of the one color I need. Like when I’m reading a romance, all my pink run out and then I just use random stuff. I’m so glad I’m not the only one :)
Trust me once you’re at the masters level no way in hell you’re going to use annotations for fun because you’ve done it so much for finals and important parts of chapters and your own notes that you give up but it’s always a good idea to match your dividers with a subject/theme and even an highlighter color if you don’t mind writing in your textbooks or any books for that matter…I was in uni when the tablet version of textbooks came out but I always get both versions so i can really write and whatnot in the physical book but I’m guessing if people start to read books on tablets more and more (which is not the same especially for books that aren’t for school) it would be easier to annotate on a tablet and highlight and everything
It depends. I like to annotate and tab parts in books that stand out to me - things that felt meaningful, of hit a big emotion and that I want to go back to later. Or details I think are important that if I’m later in the book I can go back and not forget. You don’t have to annotate books and if you do want to, you don’t have to be super intense about it! Do what works for you, don’t compare your reading habits to those of other readers . :)
My genres of tabs are jealousy, cruelty, humor, kindness, and wisdom. I only classics though so this is what i do. I really like doing it this way, and then it is coded and then i can go back to the humor when i need a joke, or wisdom when im feeling dumb.
How I tab Match the colors/vibes of the book Light color to make lines/sentences I loved (can be anything like happy, cute, romantic, sad, funny, sarcastic, etc) Dark color for scenes that I loved that didn’t have a specific line that I loved but the scene was just amazing, and it can be for any kind of scene, as long as I would go back to reread that scene
When I did AP Lang in high school I would color code each tab to a theme so that when we’d have to write an essay on the theme (usually we’d need quotes from the book), I had the themes already and wouldn’t have to go back and look through. Also always a color for funny/meaningful quotes that I knew I’d want to reread/remember 😅
my annotating style (the color changes. it depends on the book cover colors): -plot (plot point, plot twist, character introduction) -positive emotion (funny, excitement, love) -negative emotion (anger, despair, sad) -miscellaneous (literally anything else) my system works best for me, of course it doesn't apply to everyone else. you could try it if you want i prefer annotating as little as i can. too many post-it tabs over-whelm me, so i only annotate on moments that truly matter to me and are worth looking back on
This is how I tab: Pink: Romance/love Orange: Character info Yellow:Favorite/funny moments Green: Sad moments Blue: Favorite quotes Dark purple: My favorite annotation (just the little comments I make) Purple: Spice
How i tab my books 👍 Yellow: bookmark Blue: sad/cry Pink: romance/smile Orange: anger/stress/tense or things along thise lines Green: funny/laugh Hope this helps! I just use page markers from convenience stores :3 And let me know your way!
I use the color that fits the emotion and what part it plays in the boom for example Yellow:very cute moments that make me love the book more❤ Green:very interesting moments that will help me understand the book📖 Red:the page that will have anything to do with love❤
i tab things with big square transparent post its, usually just my favorite parts. last time it was because i wa s drawing a scene and just tabbed it out for easy access.
I thought i was the only one who didn't designate the colours of the tabs to the content because I spend half my time just deciding what exactly I'm feeling at the moment.
i have a different color per character and if it’s not dialogue, then i have blue for sad, pink for romance, green for imagery, red for anger, and orange for misc.
I need to do this cus I just keep flicking through like 400 pages trynna find the one page where my favourite moment is/ a part I keep thinking about lol
I tab the sentences that I really like (the way it was framed etc). I dont write anything in the book. I personally dont like ruining those pristine pages lol.
My tabs are random colored and one specific tab is for a specific chapter and for the split narritive..and the begging of new narrator and I match the tab set to the books and I tab were I smile laugh cry or feel sad angry ect and I annotate highlight and just comment where I want I see tabbing as fun cus all my life annotating was for school questions ect but now it’s just my thoughts how I feel about a scene or anything like a little lol or lmao on whyyyy or any little things even hearts and little sparkles ✨ that’s just how I do and my books are always full of tabs!
i get scared because i tabbed my books like sm and u don’t even do it that much and u don’t color code so i couldn’t live with that but i still love your method!!
My AOCTAR series belongs in a museum or some sort of collection somewhere. I think it was one of my first times tabbing. It’s so extra. I’m talking, embarrassing. 🙈
Truthfully I don’t really annotate my books. If I want to mark a page, I usually just fold down the corner (my bf has scorned me for this lol) Also I read Every Summer After, I actually really enjoyed it.
My book annotations are so intense to say the least Like i legit use every tab by the end of the book exp. Plot twist Quote Sad Happy Write that down Omg Scary Character info World building I have even more but those are the main ones I use
A story for you called.. The maple tree I sit in..: A little girl who was 4 with no parents at all. She wandered in the woods happily.. She met animals. Nobody knows who she is.. nobody knows her.. And nobody named her. She was a orphan with no home. Until a kind lady who was 26 asked her: Hey kid! Where is your parents? The girl answered: "I don't have any" in a sweet gentle voice. The woman asks her to be her daughter. And she was so happy she accepted. One morning at her new home, she said: Mom.. Can we go to the park? The woman said yes. When they went to the park they saw a maple tree. The girl said: Oh, mother what lf we made maple syrup with the tree? The woman said: of course we can, why not now? I have a bucket in the car! PT:2??
This is how my friend tabs her books:
Yellow: meaningful
Blue: sad
Pink: romance
Orange: whatever I decide(depends on the book)
Ty!!
Oi oiiii
@@Yourmom89324 Oi Oii!💙
@@strangegiraffe vashappenin
for me yellow is the funny stuff friendship bromance n stuff like that lol
Is it bad that I genuinely did not know that people annotate for fun?
Lol same and I do a literature degree
Same
It’s not how they taught us to annotate in school, or anywhere else. It depends on the person and the book, but personally I love going back to reread some books! I only want to reread certain parts of them, so I mark those. Like if I was feeling down I’d go to the happy part, if I simply enjoyed the book I’ll go to the interesting parts, or sometimes just to mark how much I read in a certain amount of time! And different colours for each.
I new some people would put (sticky) notes in it but never expected them to actually reread it… Though tbh so far I’ve never read a book twice, since the whole surprise element is gone..
Nope
not colour coding the tabs absolutely freaks me out lmaooooo
I usually choose a colour for each theme/topic i tab and try to match them to the cover as best i can
Hi. I have been using tabs but i only put them in to mark what i want because colour coding makes me feel a little nervous. I want to ask how do you know which themes you are looking out for if you haven't read the book yet?
@@raina2319
sometimes i annotate on a reread,
sometimes i read the plot synopsis and pick really vague themes (things such as development of a relationship if it’s a romance book)
and I also sometimes add to my themes as I read
i usually start off annotating in pencil for 50-100 pages then I go back and colour code once I have more of an idea of what I’m looking for
Then I'll definitely make u freak out 😂
@@artezzzz Same, I don't annotate nothing (or anything, for y'all grammarians). If I want to reread, I either read the whole book again OR i frantically search for the part I liked a lot. Sometimes I bookmark it and then write it down somewhere.
I use a Cadbury bar packet as a bookmark
LOL
Valid
You are the true reader
Lol Same!
Best comment. And 100% relatable. 😂
I wish books made me cry. I’ve never cried despite the deaths and sad scenes I’ve read. Never shed a tear. It’s annoying. I want to feel the ultimate emotion while reading :(
Edit: I heard that “If He Had Been With Me” was a good book that makes people emotional, so I got it. Idk when I’m going to read it. I have 500 books on my nightstand rn, but I think I’ll read it after I finish reading a book for one of my classes, which I should finish today or tomorrow. I hope I cry. Wish me luck lol.
I feel this so much, like I want to be sobbing when reading a sad scene, but I don't. I'm a very emotional person, but for some reason not in books.
@@ameliejannink1678 fr!!
meanwhile I have a whole meltdown for the littlest things in books and I need to stop ;-;
@@novazx2010OMG YESS
read ugly love by colleen hoover. trust me. you will cry because the devastation you will have. read it!! but its laid out so well, the people the time, the main character. extremely relatable. it gives you something to cry and want to scream at the top of your lungs in happiness. 💗
Yellow: funny
Blue: sad
Pink: love/romance
Purple: things I found interesting or facts about the characters that I liked
Ik this is late but thanks!
for me
pink: cute wholesome romance
red: 🌶️
The pastel tab look really good with the cream colour of the page
Finally, someone like me who tabs using whichever colour they feel like at the moment.
I tried the whole “specific coloured tab for specific theme” - but I found I was going through one type of colour so swiftly while barely using the rest, that I ended up spending a LOT on new tab strips.
I love this! I was just now tabbing without color coding (for the aesthetics) and only tabbing if I WANT to come back to this page or passage.
I’m so glad the first video I watched said the exact same thing! No need to stress yourself about reading for fun! ❤😇✨
Morgann I love your book content!! Please keep doing what you’re doing, I love to hear your input on books! ❤️
Here's how I annotate all my books.
I just rip out all the pages I don't want, and keep the ones I do.
It's alot easier this way!
Plus you don't have to spend money on tabs ;)
You have to be joking 😄
Bitch what
@@agraniutkarsh9964 Nope ;)
Sounds like a lot of Christians! Lol
@@mannygutierrez7654 💀💀
Thank you so much I’ve been trying to figure this out for weeks me and my sister well my sister mainly are book lovers I am starting to read more and more books and I’ve been wanting to try this❤❤❤
I read only horror pretty much. This is how I annotate.
Orange: Fucked up scene/something that rose an emotion out me
Pink: Relationship/other
Yellow: Important information/Plot Information
Green: Quotes / good writing
Blue: Character development/mindset
Always colour code if you can. Makes more sense
how i tab my books:
orange-relatable
pink-romantic/hot/smutty
yellow-happy/funny
green-quotes/badass moments
blue-sad
I love this I’m gonna start doing this
Fantastic way of annotating your Books Morgann! 😃
I tab my books the same way: anytime I laugh, smile, or cry. The problem is, almost all the books I read have super snarky and like sarcastic characters with lots of trauma (also, I'm a very emotional person), so I end up having tabs on almost every page and then it's not really worth it anymore
omgg same!!
I just started doing that to my last book and I just realized how much easier to go back and reread my favorite parts. Normally I struggle looking through all the pages because I can’t find the part I want to reread.
I do this! I wish I had colors corresponding with certain events but I always run out of the one color I need. Like when I’m reading a romance, all my pink run out and then I just use random stuff. I’m so glad I’m not the only one :)
pink - romance
orange - fighting/arguments
blue - sad
green - funny
purple - important/favorite parts
I love just using any colours its like a surprise when I go back
Love that idea I’m going to start doing that
Every one's annotation style is different. Bit I love this version
first! i love your videos morgann!
Omg 7 mins ago!!! Also I don't tab my books, is it something I should start doing? Like is it worth it?
well it depends, she tabs on moments she wants to reread (because they're funny or sad)
Trust me once you’re at the masters level no way in hell you’re going to use annotations for fun because you’ve done it so much for finals and important parts of chapters and your own notes that you give up but it’s always a good idea to match your dividers with a subject/theme and even an highlighter color if you don’t mind writing in your textbooks or any books for that matter…I was in uni when the tablet version of textbooks came out but I always get both versions so i can really write and whatnot in the physical book but I’m guessing if people start to read books on tablets more and more (which is not the same especially for books that aren’t for school) it would be easier to annotate on a tablet and highlight and everything
It depends. I like to annotate and tab parts in books that stand out to me - things that felt meaningful, of hit a big emotion and that I want to go back to later. Or details I think are important that if I’m later in the book I can go back and not forget. You don’t have to annotate books and if you do want to, you don’t have to be super intense about it! Do what works for you, don’t compare your reading habits to those of other readers . :)
I can never try to tab my books, it just feels wrong to me to mess with a clean and new book
I have those exact same tabs and they’re so pretty
Love it. Simple and direct. Thank you!
I've been doing this lately and it's so fun but I'm running out of tabs already 😭😭
My genres of tabs are jealousy, cruelty, humor, kindness, and wisdom. I only classics though so this is what i do. I really like doing it this way, and then it is coded and then i can go back to the humor when i need a joke, or wisdom when im feeling dumb.
Idk why but you make me wanna read! I never read but now I wanna start!!
I colour code mine with
Red: rlly angry scene
Orange: Happy scene
Yellow: romantic scene
Green: plot twist
Blue: made me cry
How I tab
Match the colors/vibes of the book
Light color to make lines/sentences I loved (can be anything like happy, cute, romantic, sad, funny, sarcastic, etc)
Dark color for scenes that I loved that didn’t have a specific line that I loved but the scene was just amazing, and it can be for any kind of scene, as long as I would go back to reread that scene
Thank god somebody is like me who annotate just with random colours
Okay but you're so pretty!
i loved to read all the books!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yesss i do the same thing !! Ill just pick colours that match and go throught the colour order 😂
When I did AP Lang in high school I would color code each tab to a theme so that when we’d have to write an essay on the theme (usually we’d need quotes from the book), I had the themes already and wouldn’t have to go back and look through. Also always a color for funny/meaningful quotes that I knew I’d want to reread/remember 😅
my annotating style (the color changes. it depends on the book cover colors):
-plot (plot point, plot twist, character introduction)
-positive emotion (funny, excitement, love)
-negative emotion (anger, despair, sad)
-miscellaneous (literally anything else)
my system works best for me, of course it doesn't apply to everyone else. you could try it if you want
i prefer annotating as little as i can. too many post-it tabs over-whelm me, so i only annotate on moments that truly matter to me and are worth looking back on
Thanks I was wondering what this was used for now I can try something new 😊
This is how I tab:
Pink: Romance/love
Orange: Character info
Yellow:Favorite/funny moments
Green: Sad moments
Blue: Favorite quotes
Dark purple: My favorite annotation (just the little comments I make)
Purple: Spice
How i tab my books 👍
Yellow: bookmark
Blue: sad/cry
Pink: romance/smile
Orange: anger/stress/tense or things along thise lines
Green: funny/laugh
Hope this helps!
I just use page markers from convenience stores :3
And let me know your way!
Omg, giiirl!! I thought you were posting some sort of organized study method 🤣🤣🤣
Honestly i think ive been anotating the fics ive read online without knowing it- i did them cause i know i would want to reread those fics
Your hair is so pretty! What products do you use???
I use the color that fits the emotion and what part it plays in the boom for example
Yellow:very cute moments that make me love the book more❤
Green:very interesting moments that will help me understand the book📖
Red:the page that will have anything to do with love❤
Amazing, I always forget my tabs paper when im reading a book, so i just fold a little bit of the paper in the top😅
i write in the margins or underline w a pen usually a red ball pen!
i tab things with big square transparent post its, usually just my favorite parts. last time it was because i wa s drawing a scene and just tabbed it out for easy access.
I too match the tabs with the book cover 😄
Love this.
Tbh I just remember what part of the book it was like the back half or the middle for example, and I just reread a lot of books so
I thought i was the only one who didn't designate the colours of the tabs to the content because I spend half my time just deciding what exactly I'm feeling at the moment.
Thanks for posting this, it was helpful, do you mind if I use your idea?
um... is it only me who uses it as a bookmark 😭?
Omg I’m not the only one who does the exact thing my parents get so mad at me for it
Do you tab on first reads or re-reads? Awesome reel 😊😅
Do you read electronic books? I have a kindle and read a lot on there mostly out of convenience.
i have a different color per character and if it’s not dialogue, then i have blue for sad, pink for romance, green for imagery, red for anger, and orange for misc.
Your voice is so beautiful
OMG I thought I was the only one doing this!!!
I donno why algorithim brought you in my suggesstions, but I genuinly thought you were a disney princess from the thumbnail for a second.
I need to do this cus I just keep flicking through like 400 pages trynna find the one page where my favourite moment is/ a part I keep thinking about lol
I tab the sentences that I really like (the way it was framed etc). I dont write anything in the book. I personally dont like ruining those pristine pages lol.
I usually do it like, green info (age, look etc) pink romance, yellow funny, orange some good quote or part I will come back to
My tabs are random colored and one specific tab is for a specific chapter and for the split narritive..and the begging of new narrator and I match the tab set to the books and I tab were I smile laugh cry or feel sad angry ect and I annotate highlight and just comment where I want I see tabbing as fun cus all my life annotating was for school questions ect but now it’s just my thoughts how I feel about a scene or anything like a little lol or lmao on whyyyy or any little things even hearts and little sparkles ✨ that’s just how I do and my books are always full of tabs!
I do the same thing with my 📚 I thought I came up with that idea😂🤣🤣😂
I do this in the exact same way!
i get scared because i tabbed my books like sm and u don’t even do it that much and u don’t color code so i couldn’t live with that but i still love your method!!
I annotate only when i would like to re read a certain sentence or scene in the future, mostly for fun and to feel those feelings again.
Love it
I only annotate nonfiction books and it's usually just me underlining information that is important and writing in notes in the margins 😂
Where do you find out about new books to read?
My AOCTAR series belongs in a museum or some sort of collection somewhere. I think it was one of my first times tabbing. It’s so extra. I’m talking, embarrassing. 🙈
Awwwwwwwww😊
Truthfully I don’t really annotate my books. If I want to mark a page, I usually just fold down the corner (my bf has scorned me for this lol)
Also I read Every Summer After, I actually really enjoyed it.
I tag my study books 🙂 for my formula pages and so on
I don’t annotate my books but my sister puts in a dif color for a dif character
You should buy a kindle is really good ❤
Hii I know I’m really late but I have a question, should you annotate your books after reading them or while your reading them?
My friend does that but with books that turn her on
Random: I love your voice
I reread entire books only and only keep books I plan to reread. Probably won't reread until years later.
I thought she was gonna tab for uni. Also those tabs, you don’t need Amazon, I got tons for free at uni and from my mum
Holy sh!t. It's a real life AMY!!! (Brooklyn 99)
i fr did not know people didn’t reread the whole book
I have these categories and I match the colors to the cover
Love /romance
Sad
Funny
Important
Quote
Hi Morgann what books would you recommend for beginners?because I really would like books I just don't know which ones.😁
That is exactly how I annotate mine
My book annotations are so intense to say the least
Like i legit use every tab by the end of the book exp.
Plot twist
Quote
Sad
Happy
Write that down
Omg
Scary
Character info
World building
I have even more but those are the main ones I use
Am I the only psycho that remembers page numbers-
HOW
Are there bookmarks like those at Target?
Also when it makes me go 😯
I really want to annotate books but I'm scared I may ruin the book 😢
Can you give link of sticky notes or whatever it's called, I've found it so much but i couldn't find it
Quick question:
Why do readers tab their books?
We ussually do it when we like a characters line or somerhing happened în the book that we liked and so we highlight it and put a sticky note
A story for you called.. The maple tree I sit in..: A little girl who was 4 with no
parents at all. She wandered in the woods happily.. She met animals. Nobody knows who she is.. nobody knows her.. And nobody named her. She was a orphan with no home. Until a kind lady who was 26 asked her: Hey kid! Where is your parents? The girl answered: "I don't have any" in a sweet gentle voice. The woman asks her to be her daughter. And she was so happy she accepted. One morning at her new home, she said: Mom.. Can we go to the park? The woman said yes. When they went to the park they saw a maple tree. The girl said: Oh, mother what lf we made maple syrup with the tree? The woman said: of course we can, why not now? I have a bucket in the car! PT:2??
What's your favorite blizzard???
i personally don't tab my books i just make a list on pages i liked in my notes on my phone of take a pic(probs why my icloud storage is full💀)
I have like 3 diffrent tabs for lik the same thing sad, angst, and oh right ZEUS AND HERA'S FLUCKING FAULT
I use Highlight marker to make notes. Xd