/lit/ - Literature

its for brain damaged idiots who cant remember shit.

>>14578470
What's wrong with that

its for women

I underline everything important for my research so I can quickly go back to it when I need it.
I also write notes with my thoughts and criticism. And even draw diagrams of what is being explained if to summarize long thought processes. If someone doesn't do this with their non fiction books, he doesn't really own them.

>>14578468
highlight along the margins for the important bits that might be relevant during exams or for papers. Paraphrase and write your own sentences on the edges to make for faster navigation.
I usually write a small summary with a rating of relevancy for each article/at the start of each chapter so I know what is there and if I should even spend time skimming it when I'm looking for a certain answer.

>>14578468
It's the most chad thing a person can do to a book. Most people are too scared that someone will be annoyed, but the only people that get annoyed are fools who don't see the value. It's literally extra bonus material, a one of a kind edition. An easy way to see what others thought was most important. I honestly think the page you posted is a perfectly fine specimen. I hope they wrote what all the colors mean somewhere on it.

I always underline, highlight, write in the margins, circle important pages, ect.

I feel it's something that genuinely intelligent people do. I don't do it; I wouldn't know the first thing about taking notes on a book. I like to think I just 'absorb' the information and try to internally generalise it, but who can say?

Whenever im reading a dense fiction book or a non-fiction work, ill usually use post-its to write important info

I write my notes in Latin

>>14578543
Very nice, I wish I was yet skilled to do that.

>>14578468
>tfw used to do it but grew out of it
Now I have no clue how I used to do do it, and I miss it.

>>14578468
Unless it's for school or other academic pursuits, I don't see the reason for it.

>>14578468
I used to do it, then couldn't write a few months, so replaced it with voice notes, far better. depends the subject though.

>>14578468
I underline when I’m reading non-fiction (with short comments in the margins) and highlight passages I particularly enjoy when reading fiction

I would never do it in the past as I didn't want to tarnish my precious. then I saw my professor do it and started doing it myself - what a heck, it's not like I'm living that long anymore anyway. also, as you can show to however reads the books next where the important parts are and where he should pay attention. using pencil ofc.

>>14578468
Every professor or writer I've ever met gas done it to greater or lesser degrees

You should only do it on the second or third read, if you do it on the first reading, you will only fuck your reading experience and comprehension instead of improving them.
Every book worth reading should be read twice, so you can use the second reading for that.

>>14578468
>underlining
versatile and useful if not overused
>highlighting
retarded beyond measure
>tabbing
only for stem textbooks because you need to switch forth and back throught the content. If not, is just meta highlighting
>post-its
useful, but i preffer writting on the side of the page.
As a final note: these are about nonfiction and expositive literature only. If you do this with fiction(unless studying it, but no one in lit has capacity to do this properly) or with some sort of resumed text you are completely retarded, you don't know how to read properly, and thinks that painting the pages with crayon will make you remember it.

>>14578470
True partially
>>14578484
True partially
>>14578506
True fully
>>14578511
Based method for a retarded objective
>>14578523
Based book owner
>>14578543
What a lad, nice.
>>14578603
Lol what is self education amirite?
>>14578741
based pencilfag
>>14578832
based rereader
>>14578843
HOLY SHIT BASED

I just take notes and reference page and line numbers where necessary. Why wouldn't you do this?

>>14578930
>Lol what is self education amirite?
You clearly don't know because academic pursuits would included self education, you ESL.

The only resource you need
http://www.maebrussell.com/Articles%20and%20Notes/How%20To%20Mark%20A%20Book.html

>>14578832
basado

>>14578741
>Confusion about what it means to own a book leads people to a false reverence for paper, binding, and type—a respect for the physical thing—the craft of the printer rather than the genius of the author. They forget that it is possible for a man to acquire the idea, to possess the beauty, which a great book contains, without staking his claim by pasting his bookplate inside the cover. Having a fine library doesn't prove that its owner has a mind enriched by books; it proves nothing more than that he, his father, or his wife, was rich enough to buy them.

>>14579079

Poorfag detected.

>>14579088
Did you read the quote?

>>14579079
not that I don't agree with that, I still have irrational cherishment for my collection

>>14578468
nothing wrong with highlighting its just ugly and very poor way to mark things in terms of learning. if the book im reading has an index and is heavy on references and other notes I use little cuts of post-it notes to mark where the index starts
pic related though is the optimal way to mark your books if you really want to internalize everything you've read

>>14578468
It's simple, paperbacks yes, hardbacks no. There is no other position that matters.

>>14579223
based retard

>>14579060
As if, nerd. You just seething cause you know all the hours you've put in to get to your shit degree was just for nothing so you type in an bosnian building implosion website in the hope to one day make yourself belive other belive it, and, because Truth to you is a predetermined consensus(that's why you are an academic in the first place), making you belive in your own fantasy. All academia depends on goverment and private funding, thus all works published by the stablishment are made with a predetermined objective and censorship of discutions against the interest of the funders. They only teach you what they want you to say, and if you do research alone, or is within the scope you where conditioned in. Now, nerd, back to the Deleuze thread you've spilled from, would you kindly?

>>14578832
Definitely based

There is actually a term I can't remember that refers to intentionally breaking up someone's narrative with constant interruptions, rejoinders etc. so that the reader / viewer never gets to follow their argument from beginning to end

>>14578470
this