Annotating and journaling for reading fiction!

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I also do nothing unless I see something absolutely ridiculous, then I take a screenshot to show on my IG story later. But other than that, I just read.

I will never mark my books either

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Journaling and Annotating sounds like more work, for me. Less likely to happen.

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Understandable! I feel the same!

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I always found the comeback is that when people do that, it’s because they bought them so they can do whatever they want, to be a bit of a contradiction.

In truth they can do whatever they want, yet at the same time why would you even want to do that just because you can do whatever you want.

Who can say?

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They can do whatever they want, but they can no longer sell it if they wanted to, if they mark it up. That is, if it’s permanent. Even if it’s not permanent, sometimes bad quality sticky notes can leaves the stickiness behind

Personally, I don’t want to do anything to my book pages :wink:

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It might depend on where they sell the book or who they sell it to. Though you’re right about that.

Thank goodness for libraries, am I right? :sweat_smile:

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I scribble, write, underline, parenthesise, and doodle all over my books. With a light pencil of course. It’s a habit I picked up from undergrad.

I used be very precious with my books as a kid because I didn’t have very much. Now I feel a book is more precious the more marginalia it has.

I don’t have an aesthetic reading journal like the ones on YouTube. Don’t have the patience or time for all that.

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It is great you utilize what you’ve learned in school to help you with enjoying fiction.

There are people who just go with writing, not aesthetics needed. I wouldn’t have time for that either.