![]() ![]() The reason I did so was because these books were packed with so much goodness that just reading them wasn’t enough to squeeze out everything I wanted. I found myself scribbling notes in the margins of books such as Conversations With Friends and A Tale For The Time Being. I rarely took notes on the book – until last year. I never use tabs that show on outside of the books, as I don’t like the way this looks. I always had a pen on me when reading to underline quotes I loved, but most of the time, I would just dog-ear the page or write the quote out into my phone notes. Why Do I Annotate?Īnnotating books is familiar to me, but I haven’t done it much since university.Īt uni, I would annotate all the time so that I couldĪfter university, I stopped annotating because I was focused on reading as many books as possible – and annotating slows me down. Sometimes, especially if it’s a special edition or was a gift, I will write on sticky notes and add them into the book so as not to ruin the pages. You can keep this in a separate notebook ( if you’re super organised), on your phone, or do what I do and just write directly onto the page. ![]() Someone requested I write a blog post on it, so here it is!Īnnotating books just means to add notes and thoughts as a kind of commentary to the story. A few weeks ago, I posted a picture of my copy of Normal People by Sally Rooney and got a few messages about how & why I annotate my books. ![]()
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