Underline quotes, write something, doodle etc.

  • drowned Phoenician@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Never ever. I don’t know why, but I just can’t stand the idea of writing in my books. I don’t care if its spine is broken or the book is otherwise damaged, the inside must be clean and untouched.

    But I tolerate you all, as long as you don’t underline stuff in mine when I lend them to you

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    1 year ago

    Yes I mark mine up, surprised so many here don’t. I used to be a person that never did, but heard some people on podcasts highly recommend it, and I also began wanting to take notes. I think it adds value to the book on a re-read if you do it cleanly. I underline the first and last word of the highlight, with a curly bracket in the margin to indicate the area (sometimes a comment added), and a small plus sign in the top right corner to indicate which pages are noted. Then I can flip through when finished and dictate the notes to my computer. But they also make sticky tabs for page notes if you don’t wanna mark books up. I do have some visual or big coffee table books, like Poor Charlie’s Almanack, that I don’t want to mark up inside.

  • EthicsGradient@lemmy.one
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    I want to be the person who reads attentively, underlining things and scrawling notes in the margins, then going back to reread years later, or share books with others who do the same. But I always get too caught up in the story, or just cant bring myself to do it when I do remember. It also slows down my pace of reading quite a lot, and I’m not that fast to begin with.

    It doesn’t help that, as a librarian, the people who write in library books are the worst!

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    I’ve made a few attempts, but it feels so very wrong. Defiling of a sacred object, almost.

    I plan to find some older second-hand books with markings already made by others and see if that dissolves the mental barrier. Perhaps it may be made easier if it is a copy of a title I already own.

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    1 year ago

    If it’s my own book then yes – I’ll underline and make notes (but always with pencils, never pens!)

    I also use dog ears, that’s just how I roll!

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    1 year ago

    That’s what I like about E-books, this isn’t even an issue. I only buy physical copies for books that I specifically want to own in such format, in which obviously I won’t write or underline anything.

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    1 year ago

    I always use clear sticky notes for highlighting and underlining, kind of gives the same experiencing as actually writing on it

  • CrayonMaster
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    1 year ago

    I always want to, but I just can’t stand to see the clean book merged with my shitty handwriting

  • fratermus@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    No doodles, but when I had physical books I would I highlight and make comments in the margins.

    In ebooks I use the highlight/addnote functionality.

  • BreakNeckJim@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    The first thing my brother does when he buys a book is cracks the spine 🤢

    Haha, it used to bother me but now I’ve started just using my books, there’s not really any sense in trying to keep them in perfect condition, I’d rather be able to throw it into a backpack and read it on a beach 🙂