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i like to turn my books into a wattpad comment section

Tbh I am too lazy, and too obsessed with keeping my books neat... 😂The most I'll do is put a tab.

People really be writing hella paragraphs on their books while my annotations be like- "Slayyy" "I hate him" "Go to therapy" "OMG SAME" "lmao mood" and "Ship♡" 💀💀 Edit: MOM LOOK I'M FAMOUS-

“whichever color appears the least is happiness and the rest is pain” is such a mood

As someone who was an English major and barely made it out alive, I hate annotating my own books. I never know what to write if it's not language analysis. but I do appreciate the aesthetic 💓

I like annotating but I get so drawn in by the book that I forget to do it. And then I get annoyed when I realise all of the things I could of annotated, like what I was thinking as i read it and my predictions.

I only annotated my books on my IPad. People who annotated on paper books I have respect for them.

Am i the only one who likes the "messiness" of some of the annotations? It shows the personalities of each annotater

I get kinda bored while annotating, so now if I like a quote or a moment only then will I highlight it and tab it. Only on occasion will I write things and underline 💀💀

Am I the only one how feels pain every time I see a books with notes on it? I feel chills

2:05 Six of Crows "whichever color appears least is happiness and the rest is like ... pain" Girl, I feel you :')

Is it just me who hates writing on books because even a single dot seems like committing crime. Edit: MoM, i'M gAy

Me and my friend bought Midnight Sun simply to annotate it - each of us reads a chapter, writes whatever in the book and gives it to the other to read along with her comments. This makes reading it so much fun.

Bro, I'm even scared to underline my favorite quote on my book 💀

I tried annotating a book about fields and agriculture that my sister owned, but I still couldn't do it, despite it not being my own self-bought book, because I literally found every single line or paragraph so important/connected to one another that I wanted to annotate them all and because I couldn't stand the idea of ruining the perfect smooth pages with my writings. 😭

I could never annotate my books 😂 My anxiety could never, I'd always be too afraid to ruin the book. Also I'm usually way too deep in the fictional world to even think of writing something down 😅

I hate annotating but I annotated the hell out of the yearbook by holly bourne as the lovers LITERALLY meet by the annotations both of them write in the books and it’s so cute !! I def recommend as they are both book lovers ( it also has kinda important things that they deal with like bullying/abuse / divorced parents ) but it’s super nice and a 5/5 read

I love writing on the actual book and sometimes drawing. It shows the book was loved and it adds soul to the paper, in my opinion, haha. Kinda like scuffed up shoes. You see them and you know they've been properly worn and loved

I was reading digital books using one of those book reading apps and my phone crashed and all my notes and extra stuff I had added to the books went with it😭😭 My annotations weren't pretty but they meant something to me

6:20 omg, this was so pleasing to look at. All the hard work and dedication throughout the time period are amazing.

I love to pop sticky notes in my books and write whole paragraphs on specific points or the syntax. If it’s an educational book, I like to add my own little cliff notes as if I were teaching this subject to someone else so I can better understand it. I also like to highlight vocabulary words I don’t know and compile them at either the front or back of the book so I can try to learn them.

i love to watch others annotate their books, I annotate sometimes the ones I really enjoy :)

personally i like a shit ton of tabs in books, and i love organizing them too! the song of achilles was the first book i've ever annotated, and i had so much fun with it! i also like to put my own comments like "aww" or "WHAT THE FUCK???"

To me having someone else annotate your book makes it less personal. It’s not your brain that you’re lovingly inserting at different points. On the other hand, I absolutely love coming across annotations from past book owners because it’s a peek into their brain! I guess it just depends on what annotating means to you

I personally would not annotate my books but i surely would love to find a used book with pretty annotations

I used to be so scared of writing on my books now i turn them into a full blown diary

Also...i only ever dares to use pencils and some sketches on blank pages in there...its a terrible feeling when you write over or beside texts lol with pens!! Nooooo!! As an English major, I feel the urge to treasure the books and keep them in their best state possible..

3:42 okay but this one, THIS ONE SAVED MY LIFE

Half of me doesn't like the idea of writting/drawing on a book but the other half loves annotating and expressing my thoughts My annotations are very minimal, but hella cheotic

I'm sorry, absolutely no hate to people who do write/highlight/underline in their books, but I personally just cannot justify making any kind of annotation in my book aside from putting tabs on. If I need to write something about it, like a burning theory I have, I put it in the 'My Comments' section of my reading journal. For me personally it feels so wrong to write in books. Also, (this is a legitimate question) can somebody please tell me how they can re-read their books when it's all highlighted and written in and underlined? I know that on the first reading of the book it helps readers slow down and appreciate the book more (hence why I put in tabs) but what if it's an amazing book and you want to re-read it? Don't people get distracted by the colours?

Annotation skill at 6:58 legit stole my 💗

also!! if you want to annotate but don’t want to write directly into your books, there’s also transparent tabs you can get for really cheap!

I feel like books are my comfort and when I read them, I actually just want to lie down and relax because I feel like annotating is a lot of work and it will not let me relax and read my book

Here is what I mark in books Yellow- gay Orange- I have something to say Light green- I want this Dark blue- sad Purple- you’re making me angry Dark green- Honey stop Pink- ok I’m in love/ I ship Light blue- cute Dark (like really dark read)- love is in the air

i don't annotate as such, but when i find a dialogue or a paragraph or anything that i really like, i slightly dog ear a tiny corner of the page to remember it. i don't like marking the pages directly, so i've been using this method for a while. tbh i find book annotations beautiful in any way. it's like the people who read those books left a piece of them on the pages and really LOVED the book, it's just so nice (also i'm waiting for all the "omG dOg EaRiNG iS bAd HoW cOUlD yOu" people to attack me rn)

seeing annotated books is more painful than physical and mental torture for me and i have no idea why

4:14 i dont know why but i love it. probably because it gives me a window inside someone else mind but also I feel like reading it with someone else.

Oh my goodness the tabs that match the color scheme of These Violent Delights looked so stunning 😭

4:40 So... you are never going to reread that book again. Or loan it to anyone. I'm all for playlist notes, reactions, all that, but it shouldn't disturb the reading experience. Get a jar of rubber cement and make your own post-its the exactly right size and shape and color and pattern :-D You could even print pages with your dream cast on it.

I cant relate to people who only do tiny notes on books or think it “ruins it”. I love scribbling and making random notes or even full blown descriptions- and analyzing a bunch on my books. I think it makes it personal and mine. I love letting out those feelings of excitement or anger or sadness right next to the text. The first book I ever annotated in was the sorcerer’s stone and I was only nine years old. I reread it as a sixteen year old and I think it was so surreal and fun to see my own thoughts and how much I have grown up. If you’re reading this, scribble all yours thoughts. Future you will love it. Remember that it’s just paper and that it’s not that deep.

my english literature teacher is living rent-free in my head at this point and had me obsessed with characterization in sentence structure n stuff, so here am i trying to get back into reading. I love this teacher so much istg

me writing my whole doctoral dissertation in the margins of the books

ok but personal note 7:29 the whole vid is so cool, i love the doodles

annotating is so fun esp when i reread the book, think of something witty, then see that i've already written it down 😭😭😭

2:10 "the colour which appears the least is happiness" REAL

Personally I just underline and writes things but I don't do tabs because I never know how to do them and I feel like it will take too much time lol but who knows maybe in the future I'll finally use tabs

i LOVE the idea of annotating books with doodles and stuff but i could never get myself to write inside a book

“whichever colour appears least is happiness and then the rest is pain” LMAO

i love the perks of being a wallflower, that book destroyed my heart

2:59 NO BC IM LITERALLY THE EXACT SAME OMFG

We used to have to annotate our books for school.This video gave me horrible flashbacks.

05:44 this is actually so cool

4:02 or use transparent sticky notes!!

This is so pretty omg😭💗

I just have the feeling to annotate and make my book aesthetic while also keeping it clean at the same time 😭

i actually started annotating books this year for my ap english classes but since they were from the library, i would add tabs to it and faintly underline the sentences with a pencil and then take it out, it helped so much

Well done! Much more organized than I am!

I annotate but not for the aesthetic lol. Not that that’s bad. I’m an English major and when I annotate I like annotating with a purpose-or just finding lines I like in books. I don’t always annotate. Sometimes I don’t really see a need to. I try to only annotate when something is important to me, or is necessary for my understanding or something. I always annotate books for class, and doing that is helpful for writing papers or even class discussion as I can go back to my exact thoughts when I initially read it. Sometimes I’ll see something I may not have remembered if I didn’t put it down right there.

Me saw ppl trying to solve murder mystery novels Me: “nerd” Also me : *trying to find clues in detective Conan*

the girl in red tab😂

I don't own all the books I read and also I'm super precious and protective towards the books I do own so I've only tabbed one book (and it was a secondhand copy that was already pretty beat up, but also my favorite book). I prefer to take pictures of quotes I like and have a photo album. I then caption them with the book and author so I can later search for quotes from specific books. It's really convenient for me.

this video is literally so calming and pleasing they're all so pretty

4:55 so pretty

The way I screamed when she showed the foxhole court!! I just love aftg so much, it has a very special place in my heart 😪💕

I don’t like putting tabs on my books because I’m a little grossed out by the idea of putting glue on my book but I love annotating so I just highlight underline and write stuff in the edges and sometimes when I wanna write like a lot but tere isn’t any space on the page I go and write at the end of the chapter cuz there’s usually space there. I’m the very rare scenario that there’s no space there either I’ll just slap on a sticky note and call it a day

I plan on starting to annotate my books in my own way. Tabbing pages and writing my thoughts in an actual journal so I can keep the anxiety side of me calm and still be able to write my thoughts :3

I use a silver pen for everything. Especially for writing my thoughts (usually a few words) just in case I screw up, I can make it look cute.

is no one gonna talk about that annotating with invisible pens like that is soo smart

Haven't started annotating yet but I like my books being neat. So probably i'd put notes only on my favourite quotes

2:09 “whichever colour appears least is happiness” BAHAHAHA 😭

I like the idea of annotating but I love reading in bed at night with my reading lamp while lying down and that does not seem to go well with annotating HAHAHA

I like keeping my books neat and clean so I don’t write anything but maybe I’ll try bumping tabs

i am NOT an annotating girlie but i LOVE annotating girlies especially the ones that give like diary vibes

I use Book Darts and I'm obsessed with them

My books need to look lived in and loved and I do that by dog earring pages and writing every thought directly in the pages. They’re spaces I reside in and they show my marks on every page

I don't like to scribble on a book unnecessarily. & Never with a pen, not even in my dreams. But those sticky notes are something which I'll do from now on. It looks cool✌️

I can’t wait to get into annotating. I can’t afford it now and I’m actually try to save to move but once I’m settled my dream is to buy my favorite books and annotate them as I grow old.

Some are so beautiful they make me wanna cry...

Me: I wanna annotate! Also me: NOOOOOOOO YOU'LL GET PEN MARKS ON IT, GIVE IT BACK!!!!!! Edit: I am annotating now. I color the side of the page a certain color so I don't use tabs that obscure my vision while reading and those colors correspond with a highlight I have on that page. I use pen as well. It's really fun!

I would purchase that specific annotated version of it ends with us omg. ❤

I've been annotating books forever- so it's weird to see that anyone stresses about keeping it neat or aesthetic. :0 I still write outdated memes in my margins lol...

Isn’t that just a wast of energy and distract your attention form engaging deeply with the book? I think if i do this and try to match stickers by color I would be annoyed by reading at all 😂😭 though i like to put my thoughts in the margins but I wouldn’t care if they are neat or messy because this is not the point at all in my case.

useful tips! HOWEVER prioritize content over neatness guys, your annotations do not have to be immaculate they just have to be useful for you!! nothing wrong with adding flair or neatness but don't spend so much time on making your tabs and writing look perfect that you are reading in between writing instead of making notes as you read. 😁

Okay but y’alls handwriting wtf it’s so pretty

I didn’t get the “letting me annotate their book for them” .. what do you mean? You’re not having the same thoughts or feelings while reading that book.. I’d it cause you wanna see what this person thought they put the book ? Or am I missing something? That’s like sending someone a page and being like “write my thoughts”.

NO BECAUSE THE INVISIBLE PEN IDEA IS SO GOOD

2:58 THATS LITREALLYYYYY ME LMFAO

5:26 I need a tutorial lol and idk how these people are writing in their books WITH A PEN AND NOT MESSING UP LIKE BRU-

I JUST RANDOMLY FOUND THIS AND SUDDENLY I WANT TO GET INTO READING AND ANNOTATION SO BAD TYYYY

the fact that i've never annotated a book in my whole life-

I literally write a reflection essay when I read a line or a scene that I like and can relate to. lol... Sometimes I write on a sticky notepad but most of the time I write in my dedicated notebook or on my phone..

Problem is when years pass and you find that books you thought you loved in the past are not your cup of tea anymore and you try to sell them, but all those marks and annotations ruined the book 😳. Use clear sticky tabs!

4:52, its not really a book at this point, its just a doodling sketch book, like its not even annotating..they are just messing up their books...why would you ruin a perfectly good book just to be "aesthetic".

Me running away as soon as i spot a coho book😂😂😂😂

3:58 I don't have those transparent post-it and various sticky notes. So, my method is consisting seperate media to do annotation, like in digital journaling. I use app called *Notion* to do my reading journal. This app is a hell if you are beginner to it, even Notion's long life community says the same. But, once you get used with it, it wouldn't became much a hindrance. _I created a template that contains each section of:_ • Reaction section • Story elements section The *Reaction Section* are where I do the comment on a paragraph or page that to me was interesting. Or at least, worth to make a note. It contains my honest and immediate reaction while reading through the books. It could be (stupid) thoughts, quotes, or rant. I wrote it in disordered bullet points. Sometime I wrote what page I commented, sometimes didn't. _The story elements section basically are:_ - *The characters* Who the characters were, my impression to them (likes or dislikes), and what type of person that I got from their personalities. - *Dialogue* This section oftentimes I did not use, I rather combined it with the 'Reaction Section'. - *Worldbuilding* Its for fantasy books. I'm not writing every bit of lores and rules or magic systems in this section, but a _in-a-nutshell_ summary of my impression as whole with the worldbuilding. All of this so I can understand the world better, so I can make fan theories, so I can study it for my own fantasy drafts, or even so I can spot a plot hole and avoid the same mistake on my writing. The lores, rules, and magic systems I'm usually added in different section, which there's never "usually". Because, I never really done it, I'm too lazy. Fortunately, now we have wiki fandom, thanks to the dedicated member of whichever book I was reading. - *Themes* This is only for literature analysis. I wrote my interpretation to what the author was trying to convey in their writing, or nothing at all. This section is where I wrote the symbolisms, metaphor, or any other literary devices. Very often I didn't do this, its tiresome to reread a book. I only do a quick note for what theme the book was. You can say I'm not a fan of rereading even tho it defies the whole meaning of annotating. Haha. Maybe that's it. This is my digital anotation process. Alot messy, but works for me. Also, sorry for my messy English.

I guess it depends in perspective...but I personally donot like writing on books ...but doodling in the blank spaces..using sticky notes is fun ...

Ok but like imagine more than one person reading the same book, but at different times and each person having different coloured tabs to write out their comments...a comment section

the foxhole court omg omg omg my favourite book series ever im so surprised to see this here it's so underrated on tiktok

6:56 Anyone know where I can find that cover of the song on KZfaq or something? It’s so pretty