a realistic guide to book annotation | 10 ways to annotate your books |
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Hi! My name is Li. Welcome to my channel dedicated to all things books and reading! Today I'm giving an overview of how I annotate. I emphasize the importance of individualizing annotations to you and your books rather than making it look perfect. Subscribe for more bookish content!
how i expand my vocabulary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNOHcSBmdMQ&t=26s in-depth annotation (method 8): https://youtu.be/E5PfE5p1nJU more detailed annotations (method 10): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68N442s8NUk tell me your favorite book here: https://forms.gle/2bKDyUbiVQyRetZ5A let's be friends! IG: https://www.instagram.com/booksinbarcelona/ @booksinbarcelona Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/lislibraryreads Timestamps: 0:00 - intro 0:56 - 1) don't annotate (People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry) 1:56 - 2) borrowed books (The Stranger/Outsider by Albert Camus) 3:42 - 3) subtle pencil (Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin) 5:16 - 4) tabs only method (The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller) 6:24 - 5) give up (The Giver Quartet by Lois Lowry) 7:37 - 6) pen in hand (Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro) 9:29 - 7) make it messy & re-read (One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez) 11:11 - 8) detailed annotations on beautiful books (The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov) 13:50 - 9) all about the ideas/non-fiction (Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke) 15:24 - 10) the full monty/destroy your book (Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë) 18:02 - summary/conclusion |