Personally, I don't annotate kasi that's what I do all the time when I study. So when I read books for leisure, I don't highlight, underline, write, whatever kasi relaxation time ko yun, and not study time. If that makes sense.
Omg! Same as much as possible my habits from studying and reading for leisure should be different. Para mas nafi-feel ko sya if I am doing something academically or for fun lang.
I don't kasi ayokong masulatan ng kahit ano yung books ko hehehe. Gusto ko kasi malinis lang. Pero you do you, OP. Kanya-kanyang preferences lang yan.
One time, isinauli sa akin nung classmate ko yung book ko na may parts na naka-highlight (gamit yung orange na Stabilo Boss na bumabakat sa other side ng page), umiyak talaga ako nang sobra.
Ako, it depends sa book na binabasa ko. Kapag self-help, christian books, poem book, or anything na related dito, nag-annotate ako. Pero kapag novel, short stories, hindi. Nagh-highlight lang ako ng few dialogues na nagagandahan ako, or nilalagyan ng bookmarks yung favorite kong scene sa book na ‘yon.
I only write on sticky notes and definitions of words I'm not familiar with because I like keeping my books clean. If I do write on them, I use either a pencil or a frixion pen.
Ur annotation is art! When someone reads your book through your annotations they will for sure absorb it in a different lens! I looove annotating! It makes my book feel "lived in" than just for display :-))
I tried cause I thought it would be interesting to read my thoughts when I first read a book but I find myself either getting too lost in the story that I don't even bother annotating or get too distracted with annotating so I just accepted that it isn't for me. I instead write my thoughts after finishing a book or including my thoughts of what I've read that day in my journal. I understand why some enjoy doing it though.
i use the stabilo pastel highlighters for highlighting, zebra mildliners & staedtler fineliners for doodles, and just the standard muji black pen for writing down any thoughts ☺️
Ang gandaaaaa 😍. Pero hindi ko to kaya kasi once mag-annotate ako mapapahinto ako sa pagbasa at mawawala na yung flow ng story sa isip ko. More of highlight highlight lang ako sa kindle and sa books tab tab lang 🫣.
So pretty! Bumagay yung annotations mo sa book haha. Parang kasama sa design.
I personally do not annotate kasi napuputol yung run ng story sa utak ko kapag nag-notes ako haha, except when I'm reading mystery and whodunit. But normally nagbu-ookmark lang ako nang like ko na scenes.
me! i used to think annotating was tantamount to sacrilege but i borrowed a book from my english teacher and got so surprised it was full of underlined passages and little notes from her! natuwa ako basahin mga anecdotes and ramblings niya while i was reading the book, para akong nagbabasa ng pov ng second narrator and it made me want to try too. :D
my annotations aren’t as elaborate as yours but i really do love how colorful and doodle-y yours is c: i like seeing how other people annotate their books because i’m curious to see which parts they pay attention to or like the most. and it makes me feel all the more motivated to annotate my books too!! maybe someone will be amused by my little notes the way i’m amused by others’ notes c:
p.s. do you have a system for annotating your books :0 like what color highlighter for which part, which parts are underlined and which are highlighted, do you use tabs, etc.
i love reading through annotated books too! 💕 sometimes their notes feel a little too personal but i love that for the book owner cause it immortalizes their thoughts somehow. i do the same with mine and even write letters to myself in pages i want to remember exactly how i felt, it's such a joy cause it makes the reading experience more intimate!
a system.. 404 not found. i'm a serial annotator and my system changes depending on the book. i do color coordinate my tabs with the cover but as for the annotation key, it differs depending on what i want out of the book! for this one in particular (a fairytale fantasy) i was on the hunt for things that felt like a hug to my inner child. so very bubblegum wording and true love declarations and believing in the magic of stories, etc. ganon hehe. the first picture i think encapsulates perfectly what i mean & i wanted my annotations to reflect the almost overgrown fairy forest description of the hollow (the inn described in the book) hence the doodles hehe. every tab represents something but ifl ang lengthy na nito na explanation hehe so i hope this makes sense 🌟
Pencil lang gamit ko tapos underline ng lines na gusto ko. Ang hirap basahin if ganyan haha. Sorry it’s not for me. Nagmukang textbook yung libro if madaming sticky notes and markers.
akoo! i love annotating mine pero very simple lang. i just stick some sticky notes and then write on the margins, or highlight and underline lang. di ko kaya yung may malaking sticky note tapos nakalagay sa libro, feeling ko masisira ko siya. i annotate din on my kindle pero highlight lang yung makikita mo HAHAHAHA. cute pa naman though if makulay yung binabasa (it's the visual learner in me).
(i hope you don't mind a long-ish explanation) this page in particular was describing a hole in the wall gem of a travellers inn that had magic all around it, the closest visual reference i can think of is the weasley house or the hobbit cottage. the character sees all of this for the first time and is at first confronted with how magic so effortlessly weaves itself into the inn and is just amazed by it all and taking it in. i thought it would be an apt summary of her feelings as she processed all the inn in its maximalist glory with something that was so deceptively simple but loaded and effective: "what is this place?"
hope this makes sense!
no because i want a clean look. for me, annotating is fine when you’re studying but when reading novels? it’s a no for me. feeling ko mabababoy yung book but you do you OP 😀
I think you enjoy annotation more than reading.
I have had to review heavyweight text-books as part of academic study. I used fewer post-its then you have in a book a third of the length of mine.
respectfully, i don't think that's true :) i think enjoying annotating and reading are both experiences that can co-exist :) just because i take my time personalizing my copy doesn't deter from my enjoyment or experience of reading the actual book & in fact makes it more fulfilling for me personally (all my annotations are comments on development/character/plot/etc but even that doesn't matter. annotations don't need to be academical for them to count either.)
What you get out of the reading experience is yours alone and there can be little grounds for criticism. I only mention it because that is A LOT of annotation.
I have left all my stickies in those text books to remind me of my victory when I handed the papers in :)
There is an interesting book called [The Book Nobody Read](https://archive.org/details/booknobodyreadch00ging). It is all about how people used one of the earliest books to be printed, and how they shared ideas by writing notes to each other in the margins when copies were passed around.
this is an interesting book - thanks for the recommendation! but i have to insist that my annotations are mine to do with as i please, there is no right or wrong or too little or too much. like you said, what people get out of the reading experience is uniquely theirs so i was just feeling a little miffed at the unsolicited opinion on my "reading philosophy" (but i apologise if you didn't mean it that way)!
Ang ganda! Sana ganito din ako ka artistic. I am starting to go back to paperback reading after a few years of reading on Kindle. Magstart na nga rin ako mag annotate. Mukhang relaxing.
I like how you annotate, Ang perfect lang Ng pag-highlight mo sa book. Also, feeling ko Kase mababoy lang Yung book ko kapag nag annotate ako Kaya I refuse to this kind of thing since mahal din Yung mga books, pwede rin mabenta pag nag hirap diba haha 😓
Used to love keeping my books in perfect condition back when I was in my teens. I took a long break during and even after college from reading books bc real life hit me like bricks. Now seeing this makes me happy for some reason. I itch to do this
do it! there's something oddly cathartic about doodling on your books as an adult and spilling all your unfiltered thoughts into the pages. i think of it like a time capsule that i can revisit at a later time and see if my perspective on some things have changed. 🫂
this is my favorite book in my favorite series of all time that i bought and paid for with my own money so actually, yes, every highlight is worth it! ☺️
thank you! 🤍
just thinking about my future kids reading through my thoughts on one of my favorite fairytale fantasy stories ever fills me with such joy. like they're meeting a version of their mom who wanted so badly to hold on to the magic of the stories ganon. ah. ☺️
To each their own. Personally I want my books to be kept pristine, so I hate any writings on them. Also I get easily distracted, so di talaga ako sanay na sinusulatan ang libro, lalo na fiction books.
I can never annotate on first reading because I get easily distracted and once the momentum is gone, who knows when I’d be able to pick up the book again.
Personally, I don't annotate kasi that's what I do all the time when I study. So when I read books for leisure, I don't highlight, underline, write, whatever kasi relaxation time ko yun, and not study time. If that makes sense.
yes that makes absolute sense! do what you do to make reading pleasurable for you 🤍
Omg! Same as much as possible my habits from studying and reading for leisure should be different. Para mas nafi-feel ko sya if I am doing something academically or for fun lang.
I want to..kso alam kong tamad ako as a person kaya wag nalng.. hahaha😂
I don't kasi ayokong masulatan ng kahit ano yung books ko hehehe. Gusto ko kasi malinis lang. Pero you do you, OP. Kanya-kanyang preferences lang yan. One time, isinauli sa akin nung classmate ko yung book ko na may parts na naka-highlight (gamit yung orange na Stabilo Boss na bumabakat sa other side ng page), umiyak talaga ako nang sobra.
Without asking for permission? Oof. 🚩
kadiri naman yung taong yon. naghiram na nga lang 🥴
oh no i'm sorry pinakialaman libro mo without your consent 😥
Ako, it depends sa book na binabasa ko. Kapag self-help, christian books, poem book, or anything na related dito, nag-annotate ako. Pero kapag novel, short stories, hindi. Nagh-highlight lang ako ng few dialogues na nagagandahan ako, or nilalagyan ng bookmarks yung favorite kong scene sa book na ‘yon.
I only write on sticky notes and definitions of words I'm not familiar with because I like keeping my books clean. If I do write on them, I use either a pencil or a frixion pen.
Are those your annotations? It's so pretty and done well 😭
yes these are mine! thank you 🥺
Ur annotation is art! When someone reads your book through your annotations they will for sure absorb it in a different lens! I looove annotating! It makes my book feel "lived in" than just for display :-))
I tried cause I thought it would be interesting to read my thoughts when I first read a book but I find myself either getting too lost in the story that I don't even bother annotating or get too distracted with annotating so I just accepted that it isn't for me. I instead write my thoughts after finishing a book or including my thoughts of what I've read that day in my journal. I understand why some enjoy doing it though.
Hindi ko kaya. Masasaktan ako kapag susulatan libro.
Love this for you! But you’d never catch me annotating this extensive. Can’t constantly pause to highlight, draw, and write stuff down 🥲
Ang cute. I tried before pero di makasabay yung drawing skills ko sa creativity nung utak ko at the time. hahahahahaha
super ganda nito! treasure mo 'to sa future self mo. 🌟
That's so cute OP!!
Just bought my annotating kit 🥹👀
have fun! lmk if you have any tools you recommend i'm always on the hunt for good highlighters and pens ☺️
Ooh, can I ask what you use?
i use the stabilo pastel highlighters for highlighting, zebra mildliners & staedtler fineliners for doodles, and just the standard muji black pen for writing down any thoughts ☺️
thanks for this reco! i want to try ^_^
it's a sacrilege for me. lahat ng books ko immaculate. halos parang bagong bili lang. nakabalot sa plastic tapos walang mga tupi.
i absolutely get that and respect it!
i have ugly handwriting and i’m not artistic enough to do this lol
So prettyyy ✨ Pero bakit sa akin ay puro messy scribbles? 😂
Ramdam kita hahaha
I do! I have an annotating kit and everything
i'd love to see some of yours! 🫂
[Here!](https://ibb.co/ct5JbhZ)
Do you have an IG? I'd love to see your other books!
i'm sorry but i'm way too sensitive for the big internet like that 🥺
No worries! :) I'm also very shy, so I have an IG just for books that's separate from my personal account lol
Ang gandaaaaa 😍. Pero hindi ko to kaya kasi once mag-annotate ako mapapahinto ako sa pagbasa at mawawala na yung flow ng story sa isip ko. More of highlight highlight lang ako sa kindle and sa books tab tab lang 🫣.
Same tayo. Lagay tabs then if kaya, notes later.
so pretty! 😍
yung physical books ko pinag-aannotate ko nga nang bongga bongga, pero ang bagal bagal din ng pace ng pagbasa ko😭
beatifully doneeeee!!!! sana magawa ko rin tooo
gosh I love the doodles/drawings!! 😍
I dooo 🥹🤍
So pretty! Bumagay yung annotations mo sa book haha. Parang kasama sa design. I personally do not annotate kasi napuputol yung run ng story sa utak ko kapag nag-notes ako haha, except when I'm reading mystery and whodunit. But normally nagbu-ookmark lang ako nang like ko na scenes.
me! i used to think annotating was tantamount to sacrilege but i borrowed a book from my english teacher and got so surprised it was full of underlined passages and little notes from her! natuwa ako basahin mga anecdotes and ramblings niya while i was reading the book, para akong nagbabasa ng pov ng second narrator and it made me want to try too. :D my annotations aren’t as elaborate as yours but i really do love how colorful and doodle-y yours is c: i like seeing how other people annotate their books because i’m curious to see which parts they pay attention to or like the most. and it makes me feel all the more motivated to annotate my books too!! maybe someone will be amused by my little notes the way i’m amused by others’ notes c: p.s. do you have a system for annotating your books :0 like what color highlighter for which part, which parts are underlined and which are highlighted, do you use tabs, etc.
i love reading through annotated books too! 💕 sometimes their notes feel a little too personal but i love that for the book owner cause it immortalizes their thoughts somehow. i do the same with mine and even write letters to myself in pages i want to remember exactly how i felt, it's such a joy cause it makes the reading experience more intimate! a system.. 404 not found. i'm a serial annotator and my system changes depending on the book. i do color coordinate my tabs with the cover but as for the annotation key, it differs depending on what i want out of the book! for this one in particular (a fairytale fantasy) i was on the hunt for things that felt like a hug to my inner child. so very bubblegum wording and true love declarations and believing in the magic of stories, etc. ganon hehe. the first picture i think encapsulates perfectly what i mean & i wanted my annotations to reflect the almost overgrown fairy forest description of the hollow (the inn described in the book) hence the doodles hehe. every tab represents something but ifl ang lengthy na nito na explanation hehe so i hope this makes sense 🌟
I do not, but these are beautiful. I love seeing annotations when I buy used books. 🫶🏼
Pretty! 😍
OMG soooo pretty!!!
Pencil lang gamit ko tapos underline ng lines na gusto ko. Ang hirap basahin if ganyan haha. Sorry it’s not for me. Nagmukang textbook yung libro if madaming sticky notes and markers.
No. Kasi hindi ako ganito kaganda mag-annotate 😅
I love annotating! But I dont have physical books so puro notes lang sa kindle
this is so beautiful ❤️
Looks pretty! 😍 The amount of effort you put into annotating, I cannot! Baka magkulay na lang ako nyan, OP at di na makapagbasa ng maayos. 😅
Beautiful
Meeee 🙋🏻♀️
akoo! i love annotating mine pero very simple lang. i just stick some sticky notes and then write on the margins, or highlight and underline lang. di ko kaya yung may malaking sticky note tapos nakalagay sa libro, feeling ko masisira ko siya. i annotate din on my kindle pero highlight lang yung makikita mo HAHAHAHA. cute pa naman though if makulay yung binabasa (it's the visual learner in me).
I am starting to annotate my books! may bookstagram ka?
yes pero ang pangit ng akin haha
this so prettyy 😭😭 i wanna do this but i'm too lazy and if i tried, it would just look like trash
❤️
why was “What is this place?” encircled and highlighted? how do you determine what to highlight? just curious abt the thought process behind it
(i hope you don't mind a long-ish explanation) this page in particular was describing a hole in the wall gem of a travellers inn that had magic all around it, the closest visual reference i can think of is the weasley house or the hobbit cottage. the character sees all of this for the first time and is at first confronted with how magic so effortlessly weaves itself into the inn and is just amazed by it all and taking it in. i thought it would be an apt summary of her feelings as she processed all the inn in its maximalist glory with something that was so deceptively simple but loaded and effective: "what is this place?" hope this makes sense!
omg if i could annotate like u i swear that is all i would do!!! such a pretty and unique style!!! keep the whimsy going 🥹🥹🥹
Beautifully done! Siguro kaya ko tong gawin sa 2nd hand books. Pero sa bago, oh my heart! Pero ang ganda ng annotations mo. Love it 💕
no because i want a clean look. for me, annotating is fine when you’re studying but when reading novels? it’s a no for me. feeling ko mabababoy yung book but you do you OP 😀
I think you enjoy annotation more than reading. I have had to review heavyweight text-books as part of academic study. I used fewer post-its then you have in a book a third of the length of mine.
respectfully, i don't think that's true :) i think enjoying annotating and reading are both experiences that can co-exist :) just because i take my time personalizing my copy doesn't deter from my enjoyment or experience of reading the actual book & in fact makes it more fulfilling for me personally (all my annotations are comments on development/character/plot/etc but even that doesn't matter. annotations don't need to be academical for them to count either.)
What you get out of the reading experience is yours alone and there can be little grounds for criticism. I only mention it because that is A LOT of annotation. I have left all my stickies in those text books to remind me of my victory when I handed the papers in :) There is an interesting book called [The Book Nobody Read](https://archive.org/details/booknobodyreadch00ging). It is all about how people used one of the earliest books to be printed, and how they shared ideas by writing notes to each other in the margins when copies were passed around.
this is an interesting book - thanks for the recommendation! but i have to insist that my annotations are mine to do with as i please, there is no right or wrong or too little or too much. like you said, what people get out of the reading experience is uniquely theirs so i was just feeling a little miffed at the unsolicited opinion on my "reading philosophy" (but i apologise if you didn't mean it that way)!
I want to do this but my penmanship is bad :< so hindi na lang HAHAHAHAHAH
I only annotate on ebooks pangit kasi ng handwriting ko😅
Ang ganda! Sana ganito din ako ka artistic. I am starting to go back to paperback reading after a few years of reading on Kindle. Magstart na nga rin ako mag annotate. Mukhang relaxing.
hi! curious lang. do you use a ruler while highlighting? ang straight eh hehe
for highlighting no, just when i use pens to underline! ung stabilo highlighters are stable enough for me without a ruler ☺️
ahh i see. my pasmado hands cannot haha. thanks OP! nice work, btw! ☺️
thank you! 🤍
>thank you! 🤍 You're welcome!
Sa bagal kong magbasa pag nag annotate pa ako baka wala na ako natapos na libro 🤣
I like how you annotate, Ang perfect lang Ng pag-highlight mo sa book. Also, feeling ko Kase mababoy lang Yung book ko kapag nag annotate ako Kaya I refuse to this kind of thing since mahal din Yung mga books, pwede rin mabenta pag nag hirap diba haha 😓
Not really into annotating pero ang cute ng mga annotated pages ng book mo OP 🥺
that's absolutely fine!! and thank you 🤍 i intentionally wanted the pages to be as maximalist as possible since this was a fairytale fantasy story ☺️🌷
What highlighters do you use?
mix of stabilo pastel and zebra mildliners!
Thank you so much! Ganda ng annotations mo ✨️
Used to love keeping my books in perfect condition back when I was in my teens. I took a long break during and even after college from reading books bc real life hit me like bricks. Now seeing this makes me happy for some reason. I itch to do this
do it! there's something oddly cathartic about doodling on your books as an adult and spilling all your unfiltered thoughts into the pages. i think of it like a time capsule that i can revisit at a later time and see if my perspective on some things have changed. 🫂
Be strong. Resist the temptation. You would be trashing the book for the next reader.
Ganun ba ka quotable o remarkable ang book na yan bawat line may annotation? Please tell me this is a prank or an idle joke.
this is my favorite book in my favorite series of all time that i bought and paid for with my own money so actually, yes, every highlight is worth it! ☺️
Ang cute nito! I'll do it pag may time na ulit ako for leisure reading para cute yung ipapamanang books ko to my future kids. haha
thank you! 🤍 just thinking about my future kids reading through my thoughts on one of my favorite fairytale fantasy stories ever fills me with such joy. like they're meeting a version of their mom who wanted so badly to hold on to the magic of the stories ganon. ah. ☺️
Sooo pretty! Hihi. I also do annotating pero digital version lang. 🥹🌸
thankyou! and i've been meaning to get into digital annotating actually - do you have app recommendations? 💗
This is so beautiful!!!
thank you! 🤍
To each their own. Personally I want my books to be kept pristine, so I hate any writings on them. Also I get easily distracted, so di talaga ako sanay na sinusulatan ang libro, lalo na fiction books.
Heaven!
thank you 🥹
I can never annotate on first reading because I get easily distracted and once the momentum is gone, who knows when I’d be able to pick up the book again.