I was always taught NOT to write in books and that stuck with me until I had a great professor in college who pushed me to start annotating, now I can’t read a book without doing it. Great video!!
TONY SKUBIS this journey is so similar to mine! I was always so against writing in books, and now over a year later I rarely read without a pencil in hand 😂
How ironic! I’ll tell you, after practicing annotating I noticed I began reading deeper in contrast to before annotations. I believe it helps one really connect with particular thoughts and feelings, also comprehension. I like how you have the color coded stickies!
A lovely presentation of your system! Thanks for sharing. I find your system simple yet comprehensive. For a couple of reasons I do all my reading digitally, and that makes effective note-taking challenging for me. So, what I've been doing is highlighting thoughts and quotes that interest me, then reviewing those highlights after reading a section and transferring them to a digital notebook, hopefully in my own words. I think a sure sign of truly understanding a concept is when you can explain it in your own words.
I really enjoyed this video. I underline, highlight and write notes in my books, and mark those with sticky notes. I haven't been using colour coding for different themes, but that was a very good idea that I need to try out. Thank you 😊
Wow, can't believe that we > Gilmore Girls. Amazing. I don't usually annotate my books -- mainly because I used to be one of those people who think that so much as denting a book is high treason -- but have been meaning to get more into it for a long time. This was a really great resource to get some ideas on how it can enhance the reading experience! Most of my reading material comes from libraries so usual annotation doesn't really work for me, but I definitely want to try it with a few of the books I actually own. The bookmark is such a good idea! I'll definitely start doing it with some of my library books.
You're so organized!!! I generally have a notebook on me at all times, so any time I want to write something down about a book I just jot it down there...
Just watched those several months late and I love your system. I'm trying to get past my horror of writing in books, because there are so many things I need to remember that I can't! I really like your annotation bag, and he idea of creating bookmark notes for books you don't want to write in. I may have to borrow that idea.
I love little cases that a specific for something and yours is so pretty!!! I find that I sometimes use sticky notes, and other times I just take a quick video on my phone of my thoughts.
Interesting that you sometimes take a video of your thoughts! I guess it's because I'm usually better at writing my thoughts than speaking them but I'd never be able to do that! :P
Haha XD I guess that, to me, it's kind of the same idea as the little blurbs you can put down when you update what page you're on on Goodreads. And I can add them into my book review (when I finally start doing them...)
I can't wait to send one of my friends in particular over to check out your channel, particularly this video & the bullet journal. I like that you annotate in your books & you have a legend to your sticky tabs, I do this in my work as well, even with my highlighters. Again, I adore your content & your videos
I take notes in the margin, highlight and write a small summary of each chapter on a post it. I do not want to take too much time away from the book. Love your channel.
Loved this!! I always love hearing what each color of sticky tabs mean to each person! Everyone is so different! And I love that you made your own bookmarks to take notes. Way cool!! I don't really annotate my books. If there's a quote that I like, I'll take a picture of it with my phone or something, but that's about it haha I think I might start taking more notes as I'm reading though.
Yay for Gilmore Girls! And omg those bookmarks for library books are ingenious and super handy! I usually just have a sticky note that I stick on the last page, and by the end of my reading the last page is totally covered in notes lol.
I underline and take notes in the margins, I also have a special marker for quotes I love. I usually underline important plot- informations or a great literary devices or a good description of something. I take small notes in the margins, bigger thoughts go into my reading journal, so I can put them on a file on my Laptop to put it online on my blog at the end of the week :)
Wow I like your system! It's so interesting seeing all the different ways people read! Gives a lot of insight into how people's minds work differently and process thoughts differently I reckon!
I'm not big on writing in books at all but I definitely understand why people would be. I do however tend to use sticky notes if I know I'll be discussing the book soon afterwards, otherwise I leave it to memory or write quotes in a journal haha
Ugh, like I said, I can't rely on my memory anymore! I'm already a grandma! 🙊 🙊 I guess it depends on whether you're planning on passing the book on or keeping it in your collection and making it your own to me. Knowing that I enjoyed these books and plan on keeping them makes me feel more comfortable with writing on them. I still only use HB pencil though! :P
Thank you so much! I've fallen out of using them nowadays because I'm too lazy so I just write in the book, but they were great when I wanted to keep books clean!
I am always fascinated by how people annotate books because I was never taught at school and people around me don't do it. I am still so bad at writing down notes for reviews and such. I do enjoy underlining interesting or memorable lines
Funny you should say that cause I have been thinking of redoing this video to kind of explain the best ways to annotate books for school / literature studies :P this video is so rambly haha
I love the way you read, even though I would fee exhaustet if I put that much effort into every book I read. I do like to take notes, but do so in a seperate notebook. If I wouldn't I wasn't able to rember everything I'd like to mention in a review. There are periods when I like to use sticky notes. I use them for paragraphes that move me, that I find beautifully written or that seem important in terms of plot development or characterisation. But sometimes a book doesn't talk to me very loud and I might barely take notes at all.
Believe me I don't put this much effort into every book I read! I'm reading Illuminae at the moment and haven't taken a single note! It just depends on the book, some books inspire more reflection than others :)
I applaud you for managing to tear yourself away from Gilmore Girls, I know that its easier said than done!!! I really want to start annotating my books, it seems like the perfect way to stay organized and keep track of everything important! I'm just such a lazy reader, stopping to take notes is something that I just CAN'T DOOOO
itsabookishthing13 I totally understand which is why I've found it easier to write in books as I read (or on sticky notes in books) .. I honestly I'm so admiring of people who can write comprehensive notes in a book journal, but if I tried to make myself do that I'd never write anything in it cause it's just that extra step with me. But this system works cause often I'll just tab something as I'm reading, or underline it if I have a pencil instead of tabs, and then I can write notes about it later when I'm in the mood and it doesn't interrupt the actual reading time. ✌🏼
Haha such a sweet question! I tend to use Organix, either the Coconut or the Vitamin E shampoo, and I very rarely use conditioner actually! If I use conditioner my hair goes verrrry greasy very quickly so I just use shampoo and then I use some coconut hair oil on the very ends of my hair when it's wet. 🙈🙈
It's a lot of fun! I haven't done it as effectively on my two latest reads but I want to make an effort to pick it up again because it makes reading the book so much more fun!
The point of the annotations isn't really to go back and read them again, nor is it to use them for a review, the point of them is to keep me engaged and thinking about the book I'm reading about as I read it! I find that if I do this as I'm reading a book then I'll notice more details within the book and the writing than if I didn't do it :)
I am so used to reading lying down in bed that it becomes difficult to write or use the post it notes.i am now expected to read lots of non fiction books over the next few months while making notes and wondering how to do it.
Does anyone else link pages with other pages? Like I'll often write beside an underlined passage a "link" to the page number of another underlined passage with similar connotations.
Look at the end result of your annotating - just LOOK at the thoroughly lived-in wonder of it! Glorious!
Aww thank you!
I was always taught NOT to write in books and that stuck with me until I had a great professor in college who pushed me to start annotating, now I can’t read a book without doing it. Great video!!
TONY SKUBIS this journey is so similar to mine! I was always so against writing in books, and now over a year later I rarely read without a pencil in hand 😂
How ironic! I’ll tell you, after practicing annotating I noticed I began reading deeper in contrast to before annotations. I believe it helps one really connect with particular thoughts and feelings, also comprehension. I like how you have the color coded stickies!
A lovely presentation of your system! Thanks for sharing. I find your system simple yet comprehensive. For a couple of reasons I do all my reading digitally, and that makes effective note-taking challenging for me. So, what I've been doing is highlighting thoughts and quotes that interest me, then reviewing those highlights after reading a section and transferring them to a digital notebook, hopefully in my own words. I think a sure sign of truly understanding a concept is when you can explain it in your own words.
I really enjoyed this video. I underline, highlight and write notes in my books, and mark those with sticky notes. I haven't been using colour coding for different themes, but that was a very good idea that I need to try out. Thank you 😊
Aww thank you! Sounds like we have very similar annotation habits already! :P
Wow, can't believe that we > Gilmore Girls. Amazing. I don't usually annotate my books -- mainly because I used to be one of those people who think that so much as denting a book is high treason -- but have been meaning to get more into it for a long time. This was a really great resource to get some ideas on how it can enhance the reading experience! Most of my reading material comes from libraries so usual annotation doesn't really work for me, but I definitely want to try it with a few of the books I actually own. The bookmark is such a good idea! I'll definitely start doing it with some of my library books.
Jo's Books I loved Gilmore Girls!
You're so organized!!! I generally have a notebook on me at all times, so any time I want to write something down about a book I just jot it down there...
Just watched those several months late and I love your system. I'm trying to get past my horror of writing in books, because there are so many things I need to remember that I can't! I really like your annotation bag, and he idea of creating bookmark notes for books you don't want to write in. I may have to borrow that idea.
I love little cases that a specific for something and yours is so pretty!!!
I find that I sometimes use sticky notes, and other times I just take a quick video on my phone of my thoughts.
Interesting that you sometimes take a video of your thoughts! I guess it's because I'm usually better at writing my thoughts than speaking them but I'd never be able to do that! :P
Haha XD I guess that, to me, it's kind of the same idea as the little blurbs you can put down when you update what page you're on on Goodreads. And I can add them into my book review (when I finally start doing them...)
You have inspired me to make a quote journal, that idea never even crossed my mind omg, thank youuuu
OH YAY! My quote journal is my favourite thing ever haha.
I can't wait to send one of my friends in particular over to check out your channel, particularly this video & the bullet journal. I like that you annotate in your books & you have a legend to your sticky tabs, I do this in my work as well, even with my highlighters. Again, I adore your content & your videos
Now I want to re-read all my books and do this! lol
Aww that's so lovely!!! I colour code literally everything! Including stuff at work as well! That's so cool that we have that in common! :P
I take notes in the margin, highlight and write a small summary of each chapter on a post it. I do not want to take too much time away from the book. Love your channel.
Thank you!! Yeah my reading habits tend to change all the time, nowadays I tend to sticky note as I go and write notes on things when I'm finished :)
Loved this!! I always love hearing what each color of sticky tabs mean to each person! Everyone is so different! And I love that you made your own bookmarks to take notes. Way cool!! I don't really annotate my books. If there's a quote that I like, I'll take a picture of it with my phone or something, but that's about it haha I think I might start taking more notes as I'm reading though.
Yay for Gilmore Girls! And omg those bookmarks for library books are ingenious and super handy! I usually just have a sticky note that I stick on the last page, and by the end of my reading the last page is totally covered in notes lol.
Thank you! The bookmarks have definitely served me well! :)
I love using sticky notes. The ones you have are so pretty!
book talk and a cheerful face like yours made my day!
Oh thank you!! That's so lovely
OMG I love your hair
Eeeeeee thank you! :D
I underline and take notes in the margins, I also have a special marker for quotes I love.
I usually underline important plot- informations or a great literary devices or a good description of something.
I take small notes in the margins, bigger thoughts go into my reading journal, so I can put them on a file on my Laptop to put it online on my blog at the end of the week :)
Wow I like your system! It's so interesting seeing all the different ways people read! Gives a lot of insight into how people's minds work differently and process thoughts differently I reckon!
Novel Thoughts I agree! It's something I love to discuss with others, I find it very interesting!
I'm not big on writing in books at all but I definitely understand why people would be. I do however tend to use sticky notes if I know I'll be discussing the book soon afterwards, otherwise I leave it to memory or write quotes in a journal haha
Ugh, like I said, I can't rely on my memory anymore! I'm already a grandma! 🙊 🙊 I guess it depends on whether you're planning on passing the book on or keeping it in your collection and making it your own to me. Knowing that I enjoyed these books and plan on keeping them makes me feel more comfortable with writing on them. I still only use HB pencil though! :P
I love your bookmark idea. ^_^
Thank you so much! I've fallen out of using them nowadays because I'm too lazy so I just write in the book, but they were great when I wanted to keep books clean!
I am always fascinated by how people annotate books because I was never taught at school and people around me don't do it. I am still so bad at writing down notes for reviews and such. I do enjoy underlining interesting or memorable lines
Funny you should say that cause I have been thinking of redoing this video to kind of explain the best ways to annotate books for school / literature studies :P this video is so rambly haha
I love the way you read, even though I would fee exhaustet if I put that much effort into every book I read. I do like to take notes, but do so in a seperate notebook. If I wouldn't I wasn't able to rember everything I'd like to mention in a review. There are periods when I like to use sticky notes. I use them for paragraphes that move me, that I find beautifully written or that seem important in terms of plot development or characterisation. But sometimes a book doesn't talk to me very loud and I might barely take notes at all.
Believe me I don't put this much effort into every book I read! I'm reading Illuminae at the moment and haven't taken a single note! It just depends on the book, some books inspire more reflection than others :)
I applaud you for managing to tear yourself away from Gilmore Girls, I know that its easier said than done!!!
I really want to start annotating my books, it seems like the perfect way to stay organized and keep track of everything important! I'm just such a lazy reader, stopping to take notes is something that I just CAN'T DOOOO
itsabookishthing13 I totally understand which is why I've found it easier to write in books as I read (or on sticky notes in books) .. I honestly I'm so admiring of people who can write comprehensive notes in a book journal, but if I tried to make myself do that I'd never write anything in it cause it's just that extra step with me. But this system works cause often I'll just tab something as I'm reading, or underline it if I have a pencil instead of tabs, and then I can write notes about it later when I'm in the mood and it doesn't interrupt the actual reading time. ✌🏼
That was a longer reply than I originally planned haha
That is a great idea! I hadn't thought of it that way, that i can just tab and then later I'd write the notes. I'm definitely trying that out!!!
Great video! I can tell you are really passionate about this kind of stuff! I've subscribed to your channel!
Aww thank you! I love finding new bookish friends!
Novel Thoughts especially with all the BookTube drama that's been happening we all need to stick together!
I really love your post it note system
Aww thank you! It's been a lot of fun to do!
thank u for putting before Gilmore Girls
HAHA I forgot about that! You're welcome of course! :P
This is a really strange question but, what shampoo and conditioner do you use??? I love your hair!
Haha such a sweet question! I tend to use Organix, either the Coconut or the Vitamin E shampoo, and I very rarely use conditioner actually! If I use conditioner my hair goes verrrry greasy very quickly so I just use shampoo and then I use some coconut hair oil on the very ends of my hair when it's wet. 🙈🙈
This was great! I go back and forth on annotating in my books. I like your method though.
Thank you! :)
Very informative thank you ;-)
i think its great, you can look a back on what you thought about a book. i love gilmore girls and how jess writes in his books.
It's a lot of fun! I haven't done it as effectively on my two latest reads but I want to make an effort to pick it up again because it makes reading the book so much more fun!
Have you got to the episode of Gilmore Girls where there is the house fire and two of them die?
Loved watching this video! Love from India :)
This is so neat👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Hey. I'm a new follower! Greetings from Peru. i love your video. good luck.
Thank you so much!! It's always lovely to meet new bookish friends! :D
thank you for this video it helped alot.
I love the idea but my question is-how often do you go back and read the annotations? Other then just for the initial review?
The point of the annotations isn't really to go back and read them again, nor is it to use them for a review, the point of them is to keep me engaged and thinking about the book I'm reading about as I read it! I find that if I do this as I'm reading a book then I'll notice more details within the book and the writing than if I didn't do it :)
wow i literally stop myself from watching gilmore girsl to watch your video to feel as if Iam doing something productive
I am so used to reading lying down in bed that it becomes difficult to write or use the post it notes.i am now expected to read lots of non fiction books over the next few months while making notes and wondering how to do it.
Does anyone else link pages with other pages? Like I'll often write beside an underlined passage a "link" to the page number of another underlined passage with similar connotations.
Interesting! I definitely do that if I come across something that I think is linked in the book, but that doesn't happen very often for me :)
I never liked writting in books but now I read half of my books on my kindle it's not a problem anymore
You said Gilmore Girls / Let us be friends. :D haha. Great video, it helped me a lot. :)
YESSS GILMORE GIRLS LET US BE FRIENDS IMMEDIATELY!
I loved the Gilmore Girls. 😁😁
Funny you should say that cause I was **just** thinking that it was nearly time to rewatch it hahaha
You are so nice. I love the way you annotate books.💗
Thank you so much! Do you like to annotate books or do you avoid writing in them? :D
Do you do this for every book??
Oh gosh no! Just the ones that I feel need it :)
Novel Thoughts Oh thank god lol, thanks for replying
I am a very simple person; you mentioned Gilmore Girls and so i subbed
HAHAHA THIS COMMENT IS AWESOME
The book looks like the advanced potions book of half blood prince
Oh Gilmore Girls.
Aaron in Beta aha like I said to someone else, I'd never watched it before. So now I'm hooked and have a lot of catching up to do!
I should really annotate Haruki Murakami books
Great, useful info about a topic I like given by a charming, beautiful woman. This is why youtube was created.
Gilmore girls is life let's be honest
hi jas.
Hey you!