I have an Apple iPhone I downloaded the ePub appt which is great I can take notes from any book there, I was thinking maybe instead of buying second copy’s I can download it there because my appt I downloaded act like a real book and I prefer physical copies so maybe if I but physical books and I Can download them onto my appt for free any one maybe I can do it then but I can’t read from the ePub if I have all ready read it can I? So I am thinking how I’m going to work it, I always was taught never to deface a book grown up.
It is so much fun to pick up an old marked up book and read all the comments every now and then. You sometimes discover new understanding and meaning in the same words that you may have missed when you read it before. It is also amazing to go back in time and read your own thoughts say 5 or 10 years before and compare it to what you think now. I really enjoy this.
The best tip I can give for getting more out of your books, is to DEFINITELY read with a dictionary nearby. Great to learn new words and improve your vocabulary and self expression! Another tip: Some books have many empty pages at the back, if you're uncomfortable writing in the margins of the text, you can write your notes at the back with the page numbers.
I scribble in my books with a pen... Some would consider this sacrilegious, but it really helps me engage with the book. Your book is your own, you can "deface it with abandon" (Hee, hee, nicely put) - basically you can do what you like to get the most out of it! Its not a family heirloom, to be carefully preserved!
I started reading again in late 2017, and my life has improved dramatically since picking books back up. I can't tell you how many books I've read to or listened to since then, but I have made it my mission to share the knowledge I've learned with others by being an active leader. Hopefully I can inspire a few more people to start picking up books as well.
Do you have any TH-cam channel or FB posts where you share tips about reading and understanding effectively? I'd love to learn how to read better and enjoy it. 🙏
When I read non-fiction I always have a notebook nearby since I dislike writing on the book itself. Also, I use my phone to quickly look up for unknown words. I consider that taking care of books has nothing to do with whether you prefer to actually read or collect books. In my home country, books are very expensive and I wouldn’t use them care-free because sometimes one book costs up to 3 days of my full salary.
For us to understand someone, we have to listen to them with the intent to understand. This is called empathic listening. When you try to understand someone’s perspective, that person is more likely to trust you, and you’ll be able to work out an agreement with them afterwards!
I like personalising my books and it’s pretty new for me too. I have just started it and now I’m so addicted to highlighting my favourite lines and writing down notes and word meanings that I don’t feel like I’ve read anything until I’ve highlighted lines and tabbed pages. I consume my books entirely that way. I didn’t know it was called Marginalia but that is my favourite word now :). My sister picks up books from my shelf and flips through the pages asking me why I scribble so much on the pages and colour every second line. I tell her it’s like the book and I are one entity.
I do the same for TH-cam videos. I leave a comment if I learn something in a video. Sometimes, it retains what the video have discussed to memory which makes it more worthwhile to watch and learn in here. Another thing that I've learned is to stop and reflect after every time you have learned a thing. It helps you commit to memory the things that you are learning. Sometimes I just stop and think for a second to fully understand and connect to my schema the new knowledge that I have just acquired.
This is an excellent technique if you’re a fiction writer who wants to improve their craft. Engage with your favorite novel or short story, examine and analyze what the author does and how the author does it. For example, want to better understand how to create memorable characters? Use this technique to examine and analyze how the author creates and develops character in a novel or short story.
I really like this. Ive been looking for a way to get more out of my reading lately. And also these are practical tips and not big theories. Easy to execute. Thanks
Thanks a lot for the video!! i Do something like that by summarizing books and videos (like this one)!! :) My resume - notes: Like with active listening (engage in a conversation by letting someone elsa talk without talking back your words, just listening), be an active reader. Interact with the book. Underline, highlight and make notes on the page (action called marginalia). Argue with the text. All of that helps to retain what is being read. Transfer important parts, quotes, ideas or specific excerpts. / If you don't want to write on the book, then buy 2 copies and interact with one making notes on it.
I always use sticky tabs, to highlight the line, paragraph or page. I gift my books so this ensures books are unmarked. I also use apple notes on my iPhone to scan the said text and file it under the book title, in a reading folder. Creates a mini database of information relevant to me and forms a succinct synopsis of each book.
Use a pencil! Besides, if you like to go back to useful books, insights often change and you can rewrite or rub out any perceived errors in your previous thinking. Great video, books become more useful with interaction for sure.
I have always done this since I was a teenager. I find it interesti ng as a mature person to read what I thought back then. Often I still agree with my younger self.
I read and understand my resources if I realize and grasp the abstract concepts of it. Therefore I can apply it to anything else. I don't generalize myself, it makes you static. And also paraphrase the text rather than verbatim, that is how the first principle in comprehension
Hey, I'm a big fan of your work and have subscribed to both of your channels. I like the idea of self improvement and your channel helps alot. However, I have a concern regarding today's video. I believe you forgot to mention Mortimer J Adler's infamous work "How to read a book" which pretty much explains how to be an active reader, how to interact with a book properly, how to grasp what author is saying and much more.. Also there are instructions on notes marking/making: How to mark a book. Thus, its a request to make a separate video on Mortimer J Adler works. Thanks and keep up the good work.
I try to pen atleast a paragraph after I finish a book. Atleast few sentences. Anything I feel, could be my thoughts on the subject matter, my takeaways, a little critique, disagreements with the author atleast some favourite quotations. I keep a seperate journal for this. This way I can have a log my reads.
Funny my friends always wanted me to get a Kindle BUT try learning serious Math or Physics with it. It's a REQUIREMENT to be an active reader in these fields. Besides just marking up the textbook like crazy with notes, references, questions, you'll need a pencil/pen and a notepad to do the problems and record your thoughts to fully retain it. Electronic devices don't cut it.
I prefer to note the name of the characters, their personality and details so that it can help me understand the story better. Also I use dictionary if I don’t know the meaning of a particular word.
Great stuff!! I’ve always been so worried about those wanting to keep their books so clean, retaining the information is THE point!! Thanks for the great content!!
On a certain level, we have a drug store in our brain, the neurochemicals that show up in flow: so dopamine, norepinephrine, anandamide, endorphins, and serotonin. If you were to try to cocktail the street drug version of that, right, you're trying to blend like heroin and speed and coke and acid and weed- and point is, you can't do it. It turns out the brain can cocktail all of 'em at once, which is why people will prefer flow to almost any experience on Earth. It's our favorite experience. It's the most addictive experience on Earth. Why? 'Cause it cocktails five or six of the largest pleasure drugs the brain can produce. We're all capable of so much more than we know. That is a commonality across the board. And one of the big reasons is we're all hardwired for flow, and flow is a massive amplification of what's possible for ourselves.⁰
I am doing this to one book which I find hard to understand, so that when the exams come up it'll be easier for me to understand, and quicker to revise
Hi, love your work and videos! Do you have a reading list you could provide as some of the references you make in your other videos seem to be from really insightful books! Thanks
My living space is dinite, ywt the number of books I gave read and gotten something from would require me to easily double my living space, and that's simply not a financially sound idea. An alternative idea would be to keep a piece oof paper nearby as you're reading, and than keep that or transfer the notes to a digital file.
No, no, no! Never, ever mark books with highlighter (ugh!) or turn down the corners of its pages. If you truly love books, you will not perpetrate such atrocities. Seeing the carnage at 0:50 is more than I can bear.
Lol I can't stand the thought of writing in a book, my handwriting is too ugly. So I just use sticky notes like some of you guys but I normally write complaints/compliments/opinions/theories instead lol. OHHH and lets not forget highlighting!! Thats like the best part! I normally highlight favourite/inspiring/interesting/important scenes in the book
If your an avid reader interesting in maths chemistry and physics so to say, how does reading books benefit me in those fields I mean how does it make one smart enough to benefit the person if that person loves reading books?.
Nodira Alizadeh They actually have these erasable pens and highlighters. They are a little pricey but less than buying the books. You can also use sticky notes of course.
I never animate my books because I read them the give them to my local charity shops so they can benefit from them how can they benefit from a marked book done by pen.
I can't find any good info on taking notes on books. They all give this same shit advice. I get my books from the library. Maybe when I have more money....
@ I stopped highlighting books after college. Highlighting makes no sense. Highlighting 50% or more of a book? If that much of a book is important, just reread it. And regarding notes, just use a notebook or index cards.
I use a book to note down everything from the points in videos to the points in books. It's much more easier than highlighting and more effective in my opinion !
The simple trick is: the more u study the more it becomes easy for u to learn. A time will come when u will be reading like newspaper and u will be getting every point. 10 readings is equal to 1 writing...my professor use to say .... Try it. 😊 I'm annoyed that they don't teach these at school
Ohhhh no, no, no. LOL. I don't mark up my books, but there is no way I'm buying two. I always buy hardcovers, and the cost of buying double of everything will quickly be catastrophic. I'll engage with my text by visualizing what I read, and if I absolutely need to write something down, there is always a blank paper or computer nearby.
This is nothing new. English teachers and professors worth their salt have been teaching students to do this since forever when it comes to critical reading, thinking, and writing. This information shows up on TH-cam, and now it’s a novelty.😖😡
“I used to always read with a pen in my hand, as if the author and I were in a conversation.”
*- Tara Bray Smith*
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You might wanna try boox. E-ink devices with a pen. Love it.
Love it! r/ClassicalEducation brought me here!
I have an Apple iPhone I downloaded the ePub appt which is great I can take notes from any book there, I was thinking maybe instead of buying second copy’s I can download it there because my appt I downloaded act like a real book and I prefer physical copies so maybe if I but physical books and I Can download them onto my appt for free any one maybe I can do it then but I can’t read from the ePub if I have all ready read it can I? So I am thinking how I’m going to work it, I always was taught never to deface a book grown up.
taking notes in a book feels very personal to me. i get anxious when other people see it-- like they're looking through a diary
I feel ya..
Write in Latin.
It is so much fun to pick up an old marked up book and read all the comments every now and then. You sometimes discover new understanding and meaning in the same words that you may have missed when you read it before. It is also amazing to go back in time and read your own thoughts say 5 or 10 years before and compare it to what you think now. I really enjoy this.
This is so true!! I can relate with this
Books are like food for the mind. Some you read, some you consume.
And some, you just taste and immediately spit out.
@@Anglaide exactly i never read anything by brene brown. she sucks
@@eddiew2325 I don’t read at all
I like that you addressed my crippling fear of damaging a book.
I write in pencil! so I can rub it out if I'm not satisfied with it later
The best tip I can give for getting more out of your books, is to DEFINITELY read with a dictionary nearby. Great to learn new words and improve your vocabulary and self expression!
Another tip: Some books have many empty pages at the back, if you're uncomfortable writing in the margins of the text, you can write your notes at the back with the page numbers.
Great Tip Sir !!
I scribble in my books with a pen... Some would consider this sacrilegious, but it really helps me engage with the book. Your book is your own, you can "deface it with abandon" (Hee, hee, nicely put) - basically you can do what you like to get the most out of it! Its not a family heirloom, to be carefully preserved!
I annotate my books with sticky notes! It keeps the books in great condition and you can still write all you want.
Nice one! Appreciate that idea. Write all you want and you can still have a mint condition book
@@meowth8050 please dont do that. sticky notes leave a nasty residue on the book and will make it worse
@@eddiew2325 thanks for the heads up
@@eddiew2325 if it's a good quality one that shouldn't be a problem
What you do when annotate?
Yup I definitely agree, we can get so much more out of a book with active reading
I started reading again in late 2017, and my life has improved dramatically since picking books back up. I can't tell you how many books I've read to or listened to since then, but I have made it my mission to share the knowledge I've learned with others by being an active leader. Hopefully I can inspire a few more people to start picking up books as well.
Do you have any TH-cam channel or FB posts where you share tips about reading and understanding effectively? I'd love to learn how to read better and enjoy it. 🙏
Reading is to the mind what a good meal is to the body. It sustains, it nourishes, it helps us think, and it helps us grow.
-The guide of light (Book)
I agree, sharing what's inside those great books is always a great feeling and at the same time can help people to know what to read.
When I read non-fiction I always have a notebook nearby since I dislike writing on the book itself. Also, I use my phone to quickly look up for unknown words.
I consider that taking care of books has nothing to do with whether you prefer to actually read or collect books. In my home country, books are very expensive and I wouldn’t use them care-free because sometimes one book costs up to 3 days of my full salary.
Where do you live?😮 Your salary is very low. And i thought my salary was bad.
For us to understand someone, we have to listen to them with the intent to understand. This is called empathic listening.
When you try to understand someone’s perspective, that person is more likely to trust you, and you’ll be able to work out an agreement with them afterwards!
Nothing to do with the video lol
I like personalising my books and it’s pretty new for me too. I have just started it and now I’m so addicted to highlighting my favourite lines and writing down notes and word meanings that I don’t feel like I’ve read anything until I’ve highlighted lines and tabbed pages. I consume my books entirely that way. I didn’t know it was called Marginalia but that is my favourite word now :). My sister picks up books from my shelf and flips through the pages asking me why I scribble so much on the pages and colour every second line. I tell her it’s like the book and I are one entity.
I do the same for TH-cam videos. I leave a comment if I learn something in a video. Sometimes, it retains what the video have discussed to memory which makes it more worthwhile to watch and learn in here.
Another thing that I've learned is to stop and reflect after every time you have learned a thing. It helps you commit to memory the things that you are learning. Sometimes I just stop and think for a second to fully understand and connect to my schema the new knowledge that I have just acquired.
This is an excellent technique if you’re a fiction writer who wants to improve their craft. Engage with your favorite novel or short story, examine and analyze what the author does and how the author does it. For example, want to better understand how to create memorable characters? Use this technique to examine and analyze how the author creates and develops character in a novel or short story.
I love marginalia. I even love the sound of the word mar gin al ia.
I really like this.
Ive been looking for a way to get more out of my reading lately.
And also these are practical tips and not big theories. Easy to execute.
Thanks
Thanks a lot for the video!! i Do something like that by summarizing books and videos (like this one)!! :)
My resume - notes:
Like with active listening (engage in a conversation by letting someone elsa talk without talking back your words, just listening), be an active reader. Interact with the book. Underline, highlight and make notes on the page (action called marginalia). Argue with the text. All of that helps to retain what is being read. Transfer important parts, quotes, ideas or specific excerpts. / If you don't want to write on the book, then buy 2 copies and interact with one making notes on it.
@@BYENZER thanks bro!! i meant summarising!!
Great insights! I typically read my books, right notes on my notebook and then give away my books when I'm done reading them.
I always use sticky tabs, to highlight the line, paragraph or page. I gift my books so this ensures books are unmarked.
I also use apple notes on my iPhone to scan the said text and file it under the book title, in a reading folder.
Creates a mini database of information relevant to me and forms a succinct synopsis of each book.
Use a pencil! Besides, if you like to go back to useful books, insights often change and you can rewrite or rub out any perceived errors in your previous thinking. Great video, books become more useful with interaction for sure.
I have always done this since I was a teenager. I find it interesti ng as a mature person to read what I thought back then. Often I still agree with my younger self.
Love this talk!😍 I've read with a pencil in my hand ever since school. A long time ago... . When people ask why, I tell them I think with my pencil. 🤓
I read and understand my resources if I realize and grasp the abstract concepts of it. Therefore I can apply it to anything else. I don't generalize myself, it makes you static. And also paraphrase the text rather than verbatim, that is how the first principle in comprehension
I don't like reading books that often but when I was younger I would love to read books. This video was very helpful and interesting.
Hey, I'm a big fan of your work and have subscribed to both of your channels.
I like the idea of self improvement and your channel helps alot.
However, I have a concern regarding today's video.
I believe you forgot to mention Mortimer J Adler's infamous work "How to read a book" which pretty much explains how to be an active reader, how to interact with a book properly, how to grasp what author is saying and much more..
Also there are instructions on notes marking/making: How to mark a book.
Thus, its a request to make a separate video on Mortimer J Adler works.
Thanks and keep up the good work.
Reading is the easiest way to improve your situation. 🔥
@@Mimlebimle lmaoo
I try to pen atleast a paragraph after I finish a book. Atleast few sentences. Anything I feel, could be my thoughts on the subject matter, my takeaways, a little critique, disagreements with the author atleast some favourite quotations. I keep a seperate journal for this. This way I can have a log my reads.
How much are you able to incorporate speed reading when you actively read?
Quantity over quality? Or how to find a good balance
Thanks for the tip! I'll do this from now on.
Funny my friends always wanted me to get a Kindle BUT try learning serious Math or Physics with it. It's a REQUIREMENT to be an active reader in these fields. Besides just marking up the textbook like crazy with notes, references, questions, you'll need a pencil/pen and a notepad to do the problems and record your thoughts to fully retain it. Electronic devices don't cut it.
If using an ebook, the app called polar bookshelf can be useful to highlight and annotate the highlighted content, add comments...
1:12 you just can use goodreads or similar for your notes
I prefer to note the name of the characters, their personality and details so that it can help me understand the story better. Also I use dictionary if I don’t know the meaning of a particular word.
I love that you mentioned Thrift Books, I try to purchase all my books through Thrift Books. I get all the knowledge for around $4.00 a book.
Great stuff!! I’ve always been so worried about those wanting to keep their books so clean, retaining the information is THE point!! Thanks for the great content!!
So true.... My friend wouldn't even let me fully open the book so that the spine doesn't break🤣🤣🤣
@@adamya1639 that's the worst!! I love a used, beat up, marked up, book.
This is exactly what I needed to interact better with the books I read. Thanks a bunch for such a great video!
On a certain level, we have a drug store in our brain, the neurochemicals that show up in flow: so dopamine, norepinephrine, anandamide, endorphins, and serotonin. If you were to try to cocktail the street drug version of that, right, you're trying to blend like heroin and speed and coke and acid and weed- and point is, you can't do it. It turns out the brain can cocktail all of 'em at once, which is why people will prefer flow to almost any experience on Earth. It's our favorite experience. It's the most addictive experience on Earth. Why? 'Cause it cocktails five or six of the largest pleasure drugs the brain can produce. We're all capable of so much more than we know. That is a commonality across the board. And one of the big reasons is we're all hardwired for flow, and flow is a massive amplification of what's possible for ourselves.⁰
I am doing this to one book which I find hard to understand, so that when the exams come up it'll be easier for me to understand, and quicker to revise
I thank you for calling me out like that I tried to figure out why I have so many books that I don't touch it's just for the looks lol
Great video. Going to get marking up more as I do find I have to reread because I haven't retained
Oh, thanks man...you've just changed my mind about keeping my books like new ones to resell them agian!...your tips are quite convincing. 🤝💚
Thanks for the tips!!
I love that idea! But mostly I lean books from the public library..so pretty hard to do these things
xilvsionx Same. I take handwritten notes in notebooks or on loose-leaf paper.
Awesome vid! What is the soundtrack at the end?
This was filled with wisdom and was entertaining as heck.
why does this speak volumes to me!? i have alway had a hard time writing in my books it felt like i was messing them up.
Hi, love your work and videos! Do you have a reading list you could provide as some of the references you make in your other videos seem to be from really insightful books! Thanks
Fuggin love it. Liked.
Thank you. I appreciate it!
Great work.
I'm a sucker of highlighting that's why I prefer ebook over hard cover .
P.S. book lover don't come at me 😂.
omgg SAME! but I don't care lol I have no mercy for my book. eheheheh
Do you guys make notes out of the book?
My living space is dinite, ywt the number of books I gave read and gotten something from would require me to easily double my living space, and that's simply not a financially sound idea. An alternative idea would be to keep a piece oof paper nearby as you're reading, and than keep that or transfer the notes to a digital file.
No, no, no! Never, ever mark books with highlighter (ugh!) or turn down the corners of its pages. If you truly love books, you will not perpetrate such atrocities. Seeing the carnage at 0:50 is more than I can bear.
How to highlight book in ebook
I find highlighting and taking notes on a Kindle better than on a physical book, but that’s just me.
Lol I can't stand the thought of writing in a book, my handwriting is too ugly. So I just use sticky notes like some of you guys but I normally write complaints/compliments/opinions/theories instead lol. OHHH and lets not forget highlighting!! Thats like the best part! I normally highlight favourite/inspiring/interesting/important scenes in the book
I think kindles and my ePub appt has a not part so I can type it in there.
What is the name of the text in your example above? I read some of it, and it looks intriguing to me.
Buying a second book is too much
yes it is
what should i do if i do not like to mark my books and i would like to see my books in good condition without any marking ?
Use tabs, transparent sticky notes or place cards in between your pages to write on. That's what i do :)
i would like to read my bible this way
If your an avid reader interesting in maths chemistry and physics so to say, how does reading books benefit me in those fields I mean how does it make one smart enough to benefit the person if that person loves reading books?.
Good idea!
What if I borrow my books from the library?
Nodira Alizadeh They actually have these erasable pens and highlighters. They are a little pricey but less than buying the books. You can also use sticky notes of course.
Use a notebook.
Or buy a copy second-hand.
I borrow books too. Then I buy the few that I know I really want to interact with.
I never animate my books because I read them the give them to my local charity shops so they can benefit from them how can they benefit from a marked book done by pen.
the problem comes when the book is from public library
May *_God_* protect you and your family, in the name of *Jesus*
Excellent 👌
I find it weird seeing people whose books have no highlighting,I mean what's point of reading ?
What to higlights? And is highlight better than underlining?
Why not just use a notebook?
I can't find any good info on taking notes on books. They all give this same shit advice. I get my books from the library. Maybe when I have more money....
@ I stopped highlighting books after college. Highlighting makes no sense. Highlighting 50% or more of a book? If that much of a book is important, just reread it. And regarding notes, just use a notebook or index cards.
I use a book to note down everything from the points in videos to the points in books. It's much more easier than highlighting and more effective in my opinion !
I agree. I rather use a notebook than marking up a book.
Just don't deface a borrowed book. Having said that, marking up is essential to get the most out of ot.
Get my books from the library.
Alot of these new devices you can have digital notes
i like reading through other people’s notes
The simple trick is: the more u study the more it becomes easy for u to learn. A time will come when u will be reading like newspaper and u will be getting every point.
10 readings is equal to 1 writing...my professor use to say ....
Try it. 😊
I'm annoyed that they don't teach these at school
Yeah. Writing is the key..
I’d always tell my students to go ahead and mark up their books because the bookstore wasn’t going to give them much during buy-back anyway.
Thanks :)
I called this method "destroying" my books. Glad it has a proper name and I'm not weird. Bill Gates writes on thr margin so I'm glad I'm not alone.
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Ohhhh no, no, no. LOL. I don't mark up my books, but there is no way I'm buying two. I always buy hardcovers, and the cost of buying double of everything will quickly be catastrophic. I'll engage with my text by visualizing what I read, and if I absolutely need to write something down, there is always a blank paper or computer nearby.
Buy two books.... brilliant! Why didn’t I think of this?! ❤️
I absolutely love obliterating my books by writing in them!
😎🔥😎
Or just use pencils to make notes. Pencil markings can be erased.
This is only good if you own the books, not borrow them.
Cook
Go for iPad....
This is nothing new. English teachers and professors worth their salt have been teaching students to do this since forever when it comes to critical reading, thinking, and writing. This information shows up on TH-cam, and now it’s a novelty.😖😡
Or, buy a cheap notebook?