We are on to a new week for the Book Blogger Hop hosted by the lovely folks over at Ramblings of a Coffee Addicted Writer. This weeks questions is:
Do you like to annotate your books or leave them untouched? (submitted by Billy @ Coffee Addicted Writer)
You would think this would be a simple yes or no answer, but in my case, it is not. Annotating books is something that I've very recently started trying to do while I'm reading, and I do a piss-poor job of it. I think that's partially because I spent a lot of years feeling like writing in my books is sacrilege. And it takes time to break those habits and remind myself that writing in my books is okay.
The other part of that is that I buy a lot of my physical books at thrift stores, and I absolutely love finding books that other people have annotated. Even before I started trying to annotate myself, it was kind of one of my favorite things about thrifted books. Knowing that, you'd think that I wouldn't have felt like annotating my own books was sacrilege, right? Except other people are so smart and I'm just a big dumb dumb and don't know how to annotate correctly (as if there's actually a correct way to do it). And yes, I realize that makes no logical sense, but it's definitely what my brain tells me.
So I don't really annotate my books (because I'm not consistent), but I like the idea of annotated books.
What about you? Do you annotate your books? If so, do you have a process for it, or certain things you look for (so I can get better at annotating right)?
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I don't annotate my books. Besides my bible I might once in a while highlight something in a christian book or something similar. Have a great weekend!
ReplyDeleteYeah, I like the idea of it...even though like you, I find it blasphemous to write in books. Yet I can see the appeal. I would love to read a book that's been entirely annotated by the author. I do have a set of books that were annotated, but I don't really have time to go back and re-read said series! Lol. They can be distracting though as I feel like they can take you out of the story, even though the comments are fun. But yeah...I have complicated feelings over annotations! Lol.
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I don't annotate books, but i can't imagine there's a right way and a wrong way. you note the things that are important in the texts, even if they're things that are just important to you.
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I don't annotate or bend my books. They look unread. Even if I didn't mind annotation I would have no idea what to put and no idea what to highlight 😂
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https://budgettalesblog.wordpress.com/2024/11/15/book-blogger-hop-do-you-like-to-annotate-your-books-or-leave-them-untouched/