Plus, you might think the tabs look really pretty! You can refresh your memory without having to reread the whole book.Īllows you to be creative – There’s no “right” or “wrong” way to annotate, so it may be fun to think of your own system. If you annotate your books, or even just tab them, you can look back at what you tabbed/highlighted to remind you of the important things that happened in the novel. Helps you to review the plot before reading the sequel – Something that drives me crazy is that by the time a sequel is released, I’ve usually forgotten most of what happened in the previous book(s).
If you write your thoughts in the book, you can even include some of them in your review! Makes it easier to write reviews – When it’s time to write your review, you can flip through to the parts you tabbed/highlighted to remind you of important parts you wanted to discuss. You can see whether and by how much your thoughts and feelings have changed over time. You’re more likely to analyze, react to, or form thoughts about the content.Īllows reflection in the future – If you reread the book in the future, you can look back at what you were thinking the last time you read it.
Helps you get more engaged in the novel – If you write down your thoughts as you go, it pushes you to think more deeply about what you’re reading. So what ultimately made me decide that I want to give annotating another chance? Here are some of the benefits I’ve considered: Right now I’m just easing myself in by using a color-coded tabbing system. For now I think I might start with writing in stand-alones so if I want to adjust my system again, I don’t have to do it mid-series. So, I began tabbing my books again, and I’m going to try writing in them soon. While there’s nothing wrong with this at all, I decided that moving forward I wanted to annotate in a more organized way because I feel that personally it’ll be more helpful when I’m writing reviews. When I annotated The Fault in Our Stars, I just wrote down my thoughts in the margins and highlighted my favorite quotes I didn’t tab any pages or have a color system. Recently, I saw a few BookTubers talking about their process for annotating books and I started to think about developing my own process. I enjoyed getting my thoughts down on paper, but looking at how marked up the book was honestly made me a bit anxious, so I decided not to do it again for a while.
I was planning on rereading The Fault in Our Stars, so I bought a second copy and wrote down my thoughts in the margins as I went. Then about five years ago, I had seen an annotated book and I thought the idea of being able to look back at your thoughts was really cool.
As a child, I wanted to keep my books as pristine as possible. Over the past few years, my feelings on this topic have bounced back and forth a lot. Like I said, some people are strongly for annotating books, and others are strongly against it. She recently wrote a post of her own on the topic and I highly recommend you check it out! Not only is Samantha incredibly sweet, but her posts are wonderfully well-written. I’ve been thinking about the process of annotating a lot lately, and while having a conversation with Samantha at Modern Witch’s Bookshelf about it, she encouraged me to write a post about it. Recently, I’ve started entertaining the idea again and I’m slowly easing myself in, but there’s a lot to consider and that’s what I’d like to talk about today. To be completely honest, I’ve switched between those perspectives several times. Most people either love annotating their books or are cringing right now at the mere thought of it. I know, this is a very controversial topic.
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