/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.14215545]

Do you take notes while you read?

[Anonymous No.14215552]

>>14215545
No, because I'm not a retard.

[Anonymous No.14215567]

>>14215545
For detailed non-fiction, extensively.
For fiction, close to never unless the characters are extremely difficult to keep track of.
Why did you ask?

[Anonymous No.14215576]

>>14215545
Absolutely. You should be annotating every single time. In fact, the line between reading and writing is meaningless. Any decent reader vandalizes his books with thousands and thousands of annotations.

[Anonymous No.14215620]

No. What should I be writing down? What’s the point?

[Anonymous No.14216448]

Actually really enjoy taking paragraph by paragraph notes on stuff. It takes a long time but after a few years it's crazy how much you'll have down and how intimately you can remember it. Notes are always good as long as you are actually thinking about the material and making something transformative instead of copying (the quoting and indexing has its use too)

[Anonymous No.14216527]

>>14215545
Fuck off

>>14215576
Bait-tier bullshit

[Anonymous No.14216963]

>>14216448
Can you give me advice on how to take notes of a book?

[Anonymous No.14216981]

I underline a bit. If I really like a section I'll draw a circle on the corner of the page so it's easier to find later

[Anonymous No.14217187]

>>14216963
This might sound stupid but try to know why you're taking note of something. Very easy to lapse into mindlessness out of laziness

[Anonymous No.14217217]

I write notes to correlate with certain books if im having a hard time comprehending a complex structure or encountering words I don't understand. Defining them then writiing it down with context helps a lot with improving my vocabulary.
In the instance of Infinite Jest, I thought it was appropriate.

[Anonymous No.14217263]

>>14215545
underline then revisit when Im done the book.

[Anonymous No.14217286]

>use 365 colors
>underline 70% of the overall text
>put stickers literally everywhere
Women are fucking clueless
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGzDebo7DIk

[Anonymous No.14218107]

>>14215545
No and I don't disfigure my books

[Anonymous No.14218120]

No. No I don’t defile my books. Sometimes there’s passages that really pull at my heart strings, but I usually just try to remember them and they usually stay with me.

[Anonymous No.14218139]

For non-fiction i write a summary of every chapter after finishing it. Fiction i just read and enjoy

[Anonymous No.14218389]

>>14215576
>In fact, the line between reading and writing is meaningless
This
>>14217286
Obviously that's too much, but that's not as clueless as not taking notes at all

[Anonymous No.14218472]

>>14215545
I annotate every text I read, fiction or not. I even annotate the introductions and whatnot. It helps me think critically about what I’m reading, so that I actually learn something instead of merely leave entertained. This is not a complicated process, just some underlining and a few dashes next to lines worth taking note of. Pic related is an example of what I mean, although it’s just a scholarly article.

[Anonymous No.14218483]

>>14215576
>not having a dedicated set of journals for taking notes on books

[Anonymous No.14218776]

>>14218483
Doesn’t it turn into just one more thing to carry around? To say nothing of a set of journals... having to organize them seems rough, and tracking the exact line-by-line notes also seems difficult.

> “Page 45, Third paragraph down, second sentence, beginning “blah blah...”
> Note: The use of irony

> Oh fuck wrong journal, that should go in the blue journal

[Anonymous No.14218780]

>>14215576
>literally just circling the word "as."

[Anonymous No.14218787]

>>14215545
I take minimal notes in a dedicated journal from which I synthesize short essays. Marginalia and underlining/highlighting has been scientifically proven to be ineffective in aiding in retention.

[Anonymous No.14218800]

I annotate then I use those colored sticky tabs with a color coding system so I can reference a book quickly. I often want to cite things directly rather than give the gist so it's useful for me to have it directly on hand, and easy to find in a span of time that isn't conversation interrupting. It's also an excuse to read to people, which I enjoy very much.

Pic related before the color coding system, just used colors until they ran out.

[Anonymous No.14218801]

>>14215545
Not necessarily, but I keep a notebook where I write anything relevant that comes up to my mind at any moment. So if I have a particularly interesting insight, or something in the book I'm reading touches me in a special way, it's possible that I'll write something in this notebook. But aside from that, I just read

[Anonymous No.14218820]

>>14218787
Link to study?

[Anonymous No.14218917]

>>14218472
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NO NO NO NO bruh.... don’t do yourself like that buddy

[Anonymous No.14219269]

>>14218917
Alright I’ll bite, but only because I’m genuinely curious and want to know if there’s a better way. Why not? What’s the alternative?

[Anonymous No.14219477]

>>14217286
God look at those lips. I bet she leaves black marks on any glass she drinks out of. When you look into the garbage can at the front of the class, you can tell which Starbucks cup is hers. Imagine getting your cock slobbered by that mouth
>shlrrrrp slurp gargle guuhhhhhhh sqrrrrrrrrpft
her slobber running the paint off her lips and permanently staining your glans black
Yeah, I'm gonna coom

[Anonymous No.14219481]

I used to write words or very short sentences next to passages I like, about what I liked or what they made me think of. Very minimal.
Since I've gotten a Kobo I just highlighted passages. I like books, but I like being able to read in the shade more.