The Bookish Elements Tag!
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The Bookish Elements Tag
Created by Sarah at My Granny Era:
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I saw it on Book Chat with Pat:
• The Bookish Elements Tag
And Hannah Spivey:
• The Bookish Elements Tag!
Here are the questions:
1.How do you feel about foreshadowing or dropped hints?
2. Bookmarks: what do you use? How do you feel about bending the corner down?
3. Forgotten bookmarks: Have you ever found something strange in a book?
4. Inscriptions and annotations: how do you feel about writing in a book and how do you annotate, if you do?
5. Introductions & footnotes: do you read them or avoid? What makes a good introduction?
6. Accessories: do you use bookish accessories like a clip on reading light, book sleeve, annotation materials, bookstand, etc.
7. Art & Illustrations: how do cover art and illustrations affect your reading experience?
8. Format: which format of books do you prefer? Hardback, paperback, audio, digital? Do you do different things for different situations?
9. Tag Some people.
You are truly a treasure young man. ..I learn so much off you every video...thank you so much for just existing...Todd from the Boston Massachusetts area
I've been very happy since, many years ago, I realized that a small 2" x 1 1/2" post-it makes a perfect bookmark. I place it along the right- or left-hand edge of the page beside the line of print to be marked. About half of the post-it extends beyond the book. They come in colors, too, if color-coding is of use.
Hi Steve! And to answer your question I do mostly subscribe to you for the eye candy!
(Little note: obviously, it was Sophocles who wrote "Oedipus Rex"!)
I missed you.
I could no more annotate a physical library book than I could throw it in the trash can.
We need more of the Annotating Donoghue! It should be a series!
Steve, I did not tag you on this one, but I did tag you on many tags while you were away. 😊
Terrific responses to all of these prompts. I loved hearing your anecdotes for each question.
This one looks like fun. I will probably do this, as a contribution to my mission to cope with what I hope will only be four years of Hell. Hannah does a Tag Tuesday, and I'm thinking of doing the same, in the aforementioned effort, while I finish my math/physics degree. And I love alliteration.
I love your take on spoilers. I really enjoy going blind to experience a book and be completely baffled by it and i would HATE it to deprive someone from the same experience. I've read The Red and the Black without knowing anything about what would happened and it was AMAZING. The same for The Secret Agent, The Woman in White, Jude the Obscure etc.
Eye Candy 😊
I was electrified to read your nomination of a "Hannah Spivey" version of the Tag. Hannah AND Spivey? Two very different Booktube styles unlikely to be combined other than by some very dodgey work on DNA cloning in some farflung reaches of a science fiction bookish version of ying and yang Frankensteinism, boys and girls, toys and twirls & etc.
Good job with this tag!
I do use different bookmarks depending on if the book has a Summery cover, winter cover or other. I do dog ear my books of paperback books. I sometimes go back and reread a romance book and I want to dog ear my favorite parts. I’ve found receipts, a grocery shopping list and a plane ticket that someone left in a book. I don’t write in books but I have used paperclips 📎 and left bookmarks in the middle of some of my favorite parts of a romance. I haven’t been to the library in a very long time. In the front of a romance there is often a author’s note to tell the reader if there is triggers in the book, what subjects might be brought up in a romance such as anxiety, depression, steamy scenes or closed door mentions.
I’m guilty of the anti-typo review you mention at the start of the video. I’ve tried to comment the link here a few times, but it seems RUclips keeps removing it (I guess the algorithm thinks it’s spam). It’s my review of Wittgenstein’s Mistress on my blog (link in bio) if you’re interested!
I do use a wearable book light because I read in bed, or just use it if the font in a book I’m reading is small. I do tend to read paperback books and mass market paperback books.
Hi, Steve. One quick question about annotating. Do you find that it sometimes (most of the time for me) takes you out of the story?
I don’t think you smell Steve.
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