Me: Watches a 16+ min video about annotating. Also me: Has zero intention of annotating my books. I really admire people who can annotate and enjoy it but like you said it just makes it feel like school/homework for me. I must admit I do really like your system though, there's nothing too rigid about it and you've made it work for you without being too complicated. If I ever did take up annotating I would probably do something like this so I appreciate the tips! ❤️
i love annotating books for fun. i don't do it in an academic way, i just love writing any of my thoughts about the book in the margins. this may vary from "oh my god i love this chapter" to "holy shit why am i crying" to "i love this character". i also love lending books to my friends and i always encourage them to annotate them as well. it's so much fun to look back at these and see how my friends started having conversations in the margins! love the video
I’ve always annotated however proceed with caution, I once lent a copy of call of Cthulhu to a friend and 12 year old me had written ‘emo to the extremeo in the margins’ and every day my soul weeps
Annotating is something I need to start doing more often. I feel like it makes the reading experience so much more personal/meaningful and genuinely helps with reading comprehension
Ive alwyas had extremely good reading comp however i have summer work and she wants us to do notes on quotes meaningful stuff etc so now im trying to figure out a system
i just started doing it! i’ve loved reading ever since i can remember and now with annotating i love how deep and focused i can get even more into a novel! i love it so much (even if i’m still learning😄) my personal experience with books has become more meaningful i love it🤎!
I don’t actually I saw a lot of people do but I love those like busted used books look and it’s so interesting to look back on what I write (even though it’s sooo rare because I have nothing to write I don’t wish to be an author or something 😂)
Personally, annotating has never been homework. I always underline shit that sticks out to me (mostly emotional) and it honestly makes the reading experience way better. I just did it because I lovelovelove going back to quotes and reading them and it makes me so happy. Usually, if I dont underline a lot I didnt like the book. I dont even have to think about it cause you cant really donate books in my country (unless second hand asks for it) so it's like whatever lol. People always think I was super weird for doing it and ruined them but I feel like more people are annotating and I'm seeing more videos about it? It's nice
I remember when I started reading that I believed people shouldn't annotate books but I realized that I like doing it even if it's just the flags & who doesn't love annotating videos!?
I love too for books too. Mostly would just underline a quote here or there not hardcore annotation for joy reads. Lately, I’ve gotten a bit afraid again to mark up a book from seeing all the judgement online. I wouldn’t care before & now I’m starting to break out of my shell again marking up my books. It’s much more fun that way!
An actual class. Amen. Honestly, when you talked about loving to read books that were loved by other people I decided to annotate my books that I want to give to my children so they knew I loved those books.
One of my favorite things about thrift store book shopping is finding the books that have been highlighted and written in. It gives you a different perspective on other people's thoughts about the book and a different way of thinking about it.
"Just make reading fun for yourself." I feel like this is something everyone needs to remind themselves (myself included!), especially with today's culture of FOMO and consumerism habits in online book communities.
I find that for me, I have way more fun in my reading when I *do* underline and write in the margins 😊 I’m a sucker for flipping through my books ages after I’ve read them, and I love to be able to see the notes I wrote and the things I felt while reading it! If I don’t underline something I really liked in it, I know I’ll never be able to find it again when I want the specific quote or narrative 😂
one of the best things about Noelle’s videos is that she shout outs and links other booktubers in her descriptions allll the time and I love to see it! an all round awesome gal😋💛💛
@@DaninaPetroskova I don't see it as a sexual joke but if it was a sexual joke it would mean that he was [sexually] hungry for Wendy's [The girl from the video] since sometimes people refer to having sex as "eating" and being hungry would mean that they want to have sex.
I’m a HS English teacher and I’ve been trying desperately to show my students how to annotate fiction...THANK YOU SO MUCH! Definitely helps me explain what I mean when I encourage them to read with purpose.
Jade // me too! im a math major, so we don't really read novels but i miss reading a book with a group/class and talking about themes and scenes or whatnot.
About the annotations swap... I had the idea to do that with some friends of mine, each buys a book and reads/annotates in a color coordination then mails it to the next person then it keeps rotating til its back to you again and then you'd have a book with all your and your friends annotations, that would be fun then if each person did the same each friend would windup with an annotated book by their friends. As you said, that is very personal, so for me it would have to be on a fun book one that i wouldnt care if I got back or not, and also would have to be among friends. I think ppl probably asked you for the very reason that its so fascinating to hear someone elses inner thought processes on reading!!
I 100% agree about the annotating getting stressful if you’re reading for fun. I usually only use tabs but I tried highlighting and writing in books and it was way too time consuming but everyone’s experience is different
ah, fuck, it's so refreshing to see someone so comfortable and confident in themselves!!! you're all smiles and it makes ME smile, and the way you're not being terribly humble because you know you are smart, and academic!! It makes me so incredibly happy 🥰🥰
been in a grumpy mood for an hour now but noelle’s joke literally made me laugh lmaoooo a sunshine in this dark time, indeed. AND YES, THIS VIDEO IS FINALLY UP AAAAA!!! 🙌
I hear a lot of people take the stance against annotating for pleasure and I totally get where they’re coming from, but for me it adds to the experience and I can’t imagine not annotating a book for pleasure at this point. Might also simply be because I’m dyslexic, so annotating keeps me engaged, helps me understand and recall better what I’ve read. Anyway, thanks for sharing your approach, I like the tip on circling words to understand what language is doing as it pertains to genre
Loved the video! I personally really love annotating my books, I don't do it to everyone I read. But most of my books that I read for fun I do annotate. It's interesting that you feel it takes you out of the story or feels like homework. Because to me it makes me become even more invested in the story, and I especially love when I reread a book and I can see what I was thinking before.
Issy King omg dont say sorry!! i love your channel and i didnt mean to cause any disrespect ♡ ♡ (btw i didnt mean to put the roll eyes emoji, i was supposed to put the smile emoji xx)
This really helped me realise that I didn't really want to annotate my books "properly" but just a quote here and there or some dialogue I found funny. I've watched so many annotation videos and almost everyone has these elaborate systems of highlighting and tabbing and underlining and it's really overwhelming sometimes. Thanks to this video I think I'll just stick to tabbing and highlighting absolute favorite quotes/scenes! (I also feel like it rips me out of the story if I meticulously try and highlight + tab everything)
I’ve never annotated books like I’m terrified of writing in books not even highlight. Idk I wanna learn how to do it properly just for school at least I think your tips are really going to help :)
I have had a really bad habit of buying books with the intention of reading them and then never actually getting round to it. I recently bought two new books, Emma and Outlander (don't judge me I wanted some fun reading for my short holiday I have coming up soon) and since discovering your channel, I have felt really encouraged to read again! I'm not a fast reader, and have started with Outlander, but I'm really enjoying it and it feels really good to read again! Thanks for all your wonderful and informative videos, Noelle! :)
i like annotating both my academic texts and when i read for fun. for fun, it's never like "analyzing"; i mean maybe sometimes, but it's mostly just irrational thoughts about the character or the writing in general. its fun for me, thats why i do it! i can't read a book without a pen in my hand. i like looking back and feeling exactly what i felt the first time i read it. plus it helps me remember it better in the long run
I like to underline or highlight in books that I'm reading for fun. Nothing crazy but anything that stands out to me. I also found that it helps me stay more engaged and pay more attention and appreciate what I am reading instead of skimming through my book.
I am one of the people that tag, highlight, and write in the margins for absolutely everything!! I've found that for a reader like me (who can have a hard time focusing), annotating in depth really helps me stay focused, read quicker, and absorb what I'm reading much better. Love the video! 😊📑
I love annotating books they make me feel more entangled with the characters and the environment I love sitting down and thinking about everything or else I will forget it all
I love annotating the books I read for fun especially murder mystery books it makes me feel more involved and like I’m trying to solve the case with them! For books that aren’t murder mystery I love to highlight my favourite quotes I’m going to start a book journal soon so I’m super excited!
it's really fun for me to underline stuff that stands out to me or write like lol or that was funny in a book and then i'll stick a tab on the page that i wrote on, but it's a super different way than i would annotate a book for school
When I was 7 I was struggling with vocabulary in a book and I would take a notepad, write the word, highlight it and look it up later. Love your videos!💙
I really loved how realistic you were about the methods and advised us to not get lost in the aesthetics and mainly read the books for fun (those not assigned for school)
Thank you! Thank you for going beyond the supplies used and explaining the details that you are looking for when it comes to annotation. As someone who never had to academically annotate, the process has often baffled me.
Finally!! I have been so excited for this video! Back in the day I worked at Starbucks and had my hair in braids---by far the most comfortable hair style for working on busy mornings. A man came to the register and told me how much he "loves that look on a woman." He was a regular...I never wore braids to work again.
Ok, I loved the two highlighter tip! That it's so helpful for when I get into grad school :) (if I do lol) .... and I agree with "don't annotate for fun" it truly does distract from the reading if it is for fun.
Your system for color tabs reminds me a lot of my own, but your other methods are new to me and I’ll definitely be using some of them in the future! Thanks!
I do pretty much the same thing, except I don’t write in the margins, I prefer getting a bigger post-it and write my comments on it. It helps me to get my thoughts out and helps me with writing reviews.
I personally love annotating my books because I’ll go back to it again and have a good laugh reading my notes! Plus it’s so satisfying to see all the highlights and tabs when your done !
I really loved this video - you explain annotation so much better than I have ever been able to! However, I really enjoy (like actually enjoy) to annotate the books that I read for fun. I think it's because I didn't have to annotate books in high school, and also I have so. many. thoughts. all the time that writing them in the margins of the books just makes sense to me and it makes the book a better and more fun experience for me.
This video was brilliant! Very helpful. Taking a novella class for an elective and I have to write a two to four page annotation. Not something I've ever done before. So thanks
I use postit tabs because I often see something described so well...or something I want to relive...or things I want to look into. I would forget...I don't want to forget...x
Your videos always make me a tiny bit happier. Like, I feel weirdly sad all of the sudden, I see new video, I click, I watch and BAM my mood is so much better. Thank you
I hope this might help someone who does sciences: I did a masters degree in biology so reading biology, chemistry, physics and math textbooks for school. I do miss my literature teachers from high school and reading for that. But for sciences you need to focus more on facts and on physical concepts of things relating to each other. What I do in my lecture notes or textbooks: I highlight everything I find interesting or hard to understand or relevant in yellow- so it might be just half a sentence or few paragraphs in a row, it really varies. And I go through chapter or 2 with just this one colour. And then I come back after reading to the end and look through all the highlighted parts and by then I find that many of them by now I understand or remember and they are not so relevant any more. And then I highlight only the hard / especially relevant parts and now I do it in either orange or green. This is also when I might add some notes on this to the margin as an explanation or link to some other concept or perhaps a good example I have come up with which I might use in an exam (professors really like other examples, not the ones given in textbooks/during lecture). Colours are selected so that the second round is more vivid and so that the first colour does not ruin the highlighter tip of the second colour when I go over it (orange and green both are mixes of yellow). This is then great that when need to revise for exam- if I have time I reread all (almost never happens), if I have less time I read just all highlighted parts, and if I left it 'til the last moment I just go over the second round colour parts and hope for the best :)
I use a lot of flags on my books, usually to mark a specific part or phrase that made me happy or curious, or something that i would like to remember... i love it.
i mostly annotate when i lovee books and re read them cause then it doesnt take away from the first time fun reading experience but sometimes i just wanna do more with the book than just read it so then i annotate :)
I love this way of annotating that’s simple because I read so much for school that it’s actually hard to keep track (especially this year where my professors have been addressing a lot of the same themes and ideas so I need to keep track of specifics since I can’t always remember the class it’s for 😭) But also I do annotate for fun, just not heavy annotation, like if I’m reading a fun fantasy that I picked up in my own time, I’ll probably just read it, add a flag for parts that I liked or want to reference in my own writing, and then if I actually have a strong thought I might write a comment in the margins like that usually takes the form of a joke or reference to something else. But I’m also trying to use the library more for non-class books so that’ll probably change
academically, i highlight quotes in books and make written annotations in printed articles/texts. im not too fond of writing thoughts/questions in books bc i dont want to be reminded of it if i reread. in books i read for pleasure, i don't normally search for quotes but i like to keep a pencil with me just in case something really sticks out (this hardly happens since i read very fluffy contemporary). i like to think that if someone were to borrow one of my books they would treat it as their own and if they found one of my underlines it would be like they found some treasure i buried. (ik no one asked but i wanted to share) x
I love Tombows too, only for adult coloring. I am fascinated by annotating, yet feel I can't since a lot of the books end up in my Little Free Library!
Thank you thank you thank you!! I have always struggled with annotating when it comes to school/academically, and your systems have made it so much clearer to me! I will definitely have to start using these systems once school rolls around again in the next few weeks! Loved the video!
My Kindle system is: Purple = Things that interest me Yellow = I have left a note of my thoughts about this. Blue = Quotes Orange = New singular words I've never heard before.
when I annotate I keep one specific colour (it’s purple as of now) to highlight bits of the writing that I like and could take inspiration from then use similar phrases etc. into my own writing. It really helps my mind flow when I write.
I really respect how you annotate, because my annotations are a literal shitshow. One time, I highlighted the word "quagmire", I don't know why, I just like how the word sounded. Or I will sometimes write in the margins commenting on the characters. But, if someone ever found my books with annotations, I think they would be so concerned for my mental well being. Anyways, sending my love! :)
I don’t always annotate. It just starts to happen organically with some books. In my favorite books I have writing all through them. I also have multiple copies of my favorite books though. I need a solid system though. I kinda just do whatever and I wish I were more consistent. I love the tabs and two highlighter method. I’m gonna try that out!
Using this to help me annotate my A level code. I'm only in year 10, but I love that my computer science teacher believes in me and pushes me to my maximum potential. A lot of people think that it's typically men in this field but my computer science teacher does not have that bias, and has said on various different occasions that I am top of the class. I do rather hate annotating my code, it is ever so tiresome!
The only thing I do for annotating for fun is add little tabs to quotes and moments that I enjoyed! And when reading anything from Stephen King I like to add a flag whenever I see a reference or easter egg of his other books, since he does that a lot. Like I've finished reading The Outsider and it has a really sutil reference to Misery, which was awesome, so I added a little flag! :)
I have always loved literature but sadly or not I diverged to business school(uhmm.. life!) n now watching this video you make me want to go back in time n change my choices to studying literature & annotate all the books in the world ... 😁 b'cos you make "annotation" sound so cool 😃
Personally, I LOVE annotating my books. The more into a book I am, the more I'll annotate, but I usually at the very least highlight favorite quotes, and I almost always write in the margins. It's not always big scholarly notes or anything, sometimes I just write "Asshole" next to a paragraph where a character does something awful, or draw a laughing face when I think something's funny, or a heart, but there's always something going on. I find that when I don't do that, I don't have as much fun with the book, and also don't always retain what I'm reading.
Just found this channel and OMG.. I love your attitude so much! Your "I'm all those things" comment when you pulled out It made me laugh! Girlpower! Ima go watch a bunch more of your videos now. Girl power! Let's do it!
Nobody asked but here are my own systems Post it flags: No color coding, flags at the sides point out a specific paragraph, flags in the upper side point out a whole page or pages (I usually also highlight the page numbers so I know where does the important situation end) Highlighters and pens: I use gel highlighters for my books and no color coding. I highlight important lines or cute quotes, anything that seems meaningful. I used to use pens to point out paragraphs too big to be highlighted but not as important to stick a flag. Regular post its: I use them to write questions, theories and opinions relating the plot or a character. Just so I can have proof that I guessed some plot twist and feel like I'm smart for doing it or feel stupid for how wrong my theory was. Notebook: I use this method for somewhat complex book series or books that I know I wont finish beacuse of school. I make a list of characters and a brief summary of who they are so when I go to the next book the next year I'll remember who the characters are. If a character dies I highlight it. If there's a magic system with spells or a weird fake language I write them down too. If there are definitions of things (example muggle) I write it down too and I also write the names of things that remain a mystery. I only use the notebook method for Brandon Sanderson's books and a few other book series with lots of characters or series that I know will take some time to finish.
What a system you have there! This is not a critique, of course, but the changing colors for different books can be problematic with time, but if it works for you, enjoy! I can see it working if one adds a little note the first time one uses each color saying what they mean for that book. When I can, I use color functionally. One color, for instance, deals with intertextuality (references to other books), another with contextual/historical references, etc. Now, I know that sounds like work but it can be fun: sometimes it feels like finding little treasures within the pages. Each one is different and this shows it quite clearly: while Kat is pure chaos, you are more organized and so on. Really interesting video!
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Noelle: "I don't need your weird sexual jokes."
Also Noelle: *giggles at her own use of the word thick*
😂😂😂
Wow. I don't think that's a sexual joke.
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Noelle: hello everyone!!!
Me: :)
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Me: Watches a 16+ min video about annotating.
Also me: Has zero intention of annotating my books.
I really admire people who can annotate and enjoy it but like you said it just makes it feel like school/homework for me. I must admit I do really like your system though, there's nothing too rigid about it and you've made it work for you without being too complicated. If I ever did take up annotating I would probably do something like this so I appreciate the tips! ❤️
Guilty! Lol
i get it. sometimes i just highlight or comment on parts/sentences of a book that really stuck with me. thats a good way to start
“annotations are unique to each individual!”
-me doing the exact same annotations she does because she does them-
i love annotating books for fun. i don't do it in an academic way, i just love writing any of my thoughts about the book in the margins. this may vary from "oh my god i love this chapter" to "holy shit why am i crying" to "i love this character". i also love lending books to my friends and i always encourage them to annotate them as well. it's so much fun to look back at these and see how my friends started having conversations in the margins!
love the video
This is how i annotate!!
Yes, I do this too. I write random things like "hot" or "omg I love themmm" sometimes I'll draw emojis for fun too (I like to draw)
LITERALLY SAME
You just inspired me to do it too
OMG I am so excited💓💓💓
Yea same or like my thoughts as I piece clues together throughout the plot it’s so fun to me
i been waiting for this one, turn it up
I have no idea why, but it bugged me that there wasn't a comment reply on this comment, even though it has 1,100 likes. So yeah, here you go a reply 🤣
@@joshpickin4964 i appreciate it my guy 😌
@@fayellew6544 Don't you worry about it ☺️
your highlighting system for on your own and in class makes SO MUCH SENSE and i hate that i didn't do that in undergrad omg
I thought the same thing and am pissed because I just graduated from grad school 😂
I’ve always annotated however proceed with caution, I once lent a copy of call of Cthulhu to a friend and 12 year old me had written ‘emo to the extremeo in the margins’ and every day my soul weeps
Lmao 😂
Annotating is something I need to start doing more often. I feel like it makes the reading experience so much more personal/meaningful and genuinely helps with reading comprehension
Ive alwyas had extremely good reading comp however i have summer work and she wants us to do notes on quotes meaningful stuff etc so now im trying to figure out a system
i just started doing it! i’ve loved reading ever since i can remember and now with annotating i love how deep and focused i can get even more into a novel! i love it so much (even if i’m still learning😄) my personal experience with books has become more meaningful i love it🤎!
4 systems-
1:29 post it/stick ons
5:30 highlighters
8:26 underlining/circling words
11:47 writing on the margins
Thank you!
Thank you💕
thank you :)
using different highlighters for own reading and in class... genius. history seminars, here I come
anyone else terrified to write in new books?
Me 🙋🏽♀️ I just can't bring myself to do it
Me! That’s why I write in pencil 😗
Being able de highlight a book is literally one of things that I most look forward to when I buy a new book lol
i buy gently used books bc it’s cheaper, more sustainable, and easier to let myself annotate the hell out of it
I don’t actually I saw a lot of people do but I love those like busted used books look and it’s so interesting to look back on what I write (even though it’s sooo rare because I have nothing to write I don’t wish to be an author or something 😂)
Personally, annotating has never been homework. I always underline shit that sticks out to me (mostly emotional) and it honestly makes the reading experience way better. I just did it because I lovelovelove going back to quotes and reading them and it makes me so happy. Usually, if I dont underline a lot I didnt like the book.
I dont even have to think about it cause you cant really donate books in my country (unless second hand asks for it) so it's like whatever lol. People always think I was super weird for doing it and ruined them but I feel like more people are annotating and I'm seeing more videos about it? It's nice
Totally agree. I love being able to go back and quickly find lines I connected to. If I don’t annotate, it makes me feel more removed.
@@afirstgenstory8512 exactly!!
I remember when I started reading that I believed people shouldn't annotate books but I realized that I like doing it even if it's just the flags & who doesn't love annotating videos!?
@@danielaaleman7394 right! I mean, if it makes you happy, why not?
I love too for books too. Mostly would just underline a quote here or there not hardcore annotation for joy reads. Lately, I’ve gotten a bit afraid again to mark up a book from seeing all the judgement online. I wouldn’t care before & now I’m starting to break out of my shell again marking up my books. It’s much more fun that way!
An actual class. Amen.
Honestly, when you talked about loving to read books that were loved by other people I decided to annotate my books that I want to give to my children so they knew I loved those books.
You just made my heart melt. Now I need to reread my childhood favourites so in a few years my kiddos can see my thoughts.
this new joke of the day intro is giving me life 🙌🏼
One of my favorite things about thrift store book shopping is finding the books that have been highlighted and written in. It gives you a different perspective on other people's thoughts about the book and a different way of thinking about it.
THE CIRCLING THING IS SO SMART there are always so many questions on tests that are like "wHaT wOrDs In ThIs PaSsAgE eXpLaIn ThE tOnE"
The at home highlighter...my life has been changed.
"A professor thought I am not actually that smart" I felt that in my core
Melatonin: Come on, its 11 PM. Time for bed
Me: Nah. Noelle just uploaded an annotation video. Sleep can wait
Same for me here... Its 10:30pm here..😅😅
same in europe! :) its afternoon - working - work can wait when noelle is uploading a new vid
1:28 am, I need my sleep, but there is a new video from Noelle....
I love the highlighter system-I never thought to separate it like that before!
"Just make reading fun for yourself." I feel like this is something everyone needs to remind themselves (myself included!), especially with today's culture of FOMO and consumerism habits in online book communities.
I'm reading Middlemarch for my English VII class and I SCREAMED WITH TERROR when you used it as an example
I find that for me, I have way more fun in my reading when I *do* underline and write in the margins 😊 I’m a sucker for flipping through my books ages after I’ve read them, and I love to be able to see the notes I wrote and the things I felt while reading it! If I don’t underline something I really liked in it, I know I’ll never be able to find it again when I want the specific quote or narrative 😂
one of the best things about Noelle’s videos is that she shout outs and links other booktubers in her descriptions allll the time and I love to see it! an all round awesome gal😋💛💛
I write jokes sometimes in the margins so hahaha can’t wait for some random person in the future to read my annotated books 😂
I do the same thing!!
I want to have your books 😂
Now I want to do this :D
Lmfao “I’m hungry for Wendy’s all the sudden” I’m dying 😹😹😹
Can you explain it pls , i’m not from the US ?
Auror Willow oh wow ! Thank you for the explanation !
Auror Willow If that is true, why is that comment sexual?
@@DaninaPetroskova i think she misunderstood it actually 😂
@@DaninaPetroskova I don't see it as a sexual joke but if it was a sexual joke it would mean that he was [sexually] hungry for Wendy's [The girl from the video] since sometimes people refer to having sex as "eating" and being hungry would mean that they want to have sex.
whenever i annotate a King book green is always “shit i know he thought of while doing drugs”
I’ve never read king but if I ever do this is totally something I’m doing 😂😂
Your highlighter system literally just blew my mind! Can’t wait to use it
I’m a HS English teacher and I’ve been trying desperately to show my students how to annotate fiction...THANK YOU SO MUCH!
Definitely helps me explain what I mean when I encourage them to read with purpose.
does. anyone else find her voice to be extremely satisfying to listen too???? AND SHES AN EXCELLENT ENUNCIATOR WHICH I TRULY APPRECIATE ❤❤❤❤
noelle your passion for and knowledge of highlighters gives me hope
i may be doing a science based degree but i still enjoyed this whole thing, i do miss doing english in school when lessons weren’t so black and white🙁
Jade // me too! im a math major, so we don't really read novels but i miss reading a book with a group/class and talking about themes and scenes or whatnot.
About the annotations swap... I had the idea to do that with some friends of mine, each buys a book and reads/annotates in a color coordination then mails it to the next person then it keeps rotating til its back to you again and then you'd have a book with all your and your friends annotations, that would be fun then if each person did the same each friend would windup with an annotated book by their friends. As you said, that is very personal, so for me it would have to be on a fun book one that i wouldnt care if I got back or not, and also would have to be among friends. I think ppl probably asked you for the very reason that its so fascinating to hear someone elses inner thought processes on reading!!
I don’t usually annotate much but when i buy used books and they are annotated i actually love them even more
Ok but the two highlighter colours is a game changer and you best believe I'm passing that tip on to my students this year
I 100% agree about the annotating getting stressful if you’re reading for fun. I usually only use tabs but I tried highlighting and writing in books and it was way too time consuming but everyone’s experience is different
ah, fuck, it's so refreshing to see someone so comfortable and confident in themselves!!! you're all smiles and it makes ME smile, and the way you're not being terribly humble because you know you are smart, and academic!! It makes me so incredibly happy 🥰🥰
been in a grumpy mood for an hour now but noelle’s joke literally made me laugh lmaoooo a sunshine in this dark time, indeed. AND YES, THIS VIDEO IS FINALLY UP AAAAA!!! 🙌
I hear a lot of people take the stance against annotating for pleasure and I totally get where they’re coming from, but for me it adds to the experience and I can’t imagine not annotating a book for pleasure at this point. Might also simply be because I’m dyslexic, so annotating keeps me engaged, helps me understand and recall better what I’ve read. Anyway, thanks for sharing your approach, I like the tip on circling words to understand what language is doing as it pertains to genre
As Lizzo says in her song tempo: IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE
Loved the video! I personally really love annotating my books, I don't do it to everyone I read. But most of my books that I read for fun I do annotate. It's interesting that you feel it takes you out of the story or feels like homework. Because to me it makes me become even more invested in the story, and I especially love when I reread a book and I can see what I was thinking before.
Who else has been so excited for Noelle to make this video?? Can’t wait to hear your tips!!!❤️
Btw small youtuber here!!!🌸
Joe Mcnicholas she’s just trying to get her channel out there, it’s hard to grow as a small youtuber
Meeee
Hugo Oliver yes i know thatt but i find it just a but disrespectful to the creator
@@joemcnicholas89 I'm so sorry I didn't mean to be disrespectful to Noelle! I love her videos and find them so helpful
Issy King omg dont say sorry!! i love your channel and i didnt mean to cause any disrespect ♡ ♡ (btw i didnt mean to put the roll eyes emoji, i was supposed to put the smile emoji xx)
Okay, that highlighting your own ideas vs. highlighting the ideas raised in class is a brilliant idea. Will have to use that.
I literally just thought “I could use one of noelle’s videos right now” and there it is!!! I’m definitely being spoiled🥰✨
This really helped me realise that I didn't really want to annotate my books "properly" but just a quote here and there or some dialogue I found funny. I've watched so many annotation videos and almost everyone has these elaborate systems of highlighting and tabbing and underlining and it's really overwhelming sometimes. Thanks to this video I think I'll just stick to tabbing and highlighting absolute favorite quotes/scenes! (I also feel like it rips me out of the story if I meticulously try and highlight + tab everything)
I’ve never annotated books like I’m terrified of writing in books not even highlight. Idk I wanna learn how to do it properly just for school at least
I think your tips are really going to help :)
I have had a really bad habit of buying books with the intention of reading them and then never actually getting round to it. I recently bought two new books, Emma and Outlander (don't judge me I wanted some fun reading for my short holiday I have coming up soon) and since discovering your channel, I have felt really encouraged to read again! I'm not a fast reader, and have started with Outlander, but I'm really enjoying it and it feels really good to read again! Thanks for all your wonderful and informative videos, Noelle! :)
The highlighters!!! I’m shook, I love it, I’m forever changed.
i like annotating both my academic texts and when i read for fun. for fun, it's never like "analyzing"; i mean maybe sometimes, but it's mostly just irrational thoughts about the character or the writing in general. its fun for me, thats why i do it! i can't read a book without a pen in my hand. i like looking back and feeling exactly what i felt the first time i read it. plus it helps me remember it better in the long run
I like to underline or highlight in books that I'm reading for fun. Nothing crazy but anything that stands out to me. I also found that it helps me stay more engaged and pay more attention and appreciate what I am reading instead of skimming through my book.
I am one of the people that tag, highlight, and write in the margins for absolutely everything!! I've found that for a reader like me (who can have a hard time focusing), annotating in depth really helps me stay focused, read quicker, and absorb what I'm reading much better. Love the video! 😊📑
I love annotating books they make me feel more entangled with the characters and the environment
I love sitting down and thinking about everything or else I will forget it all
I love annotating the books I read for fun especially murder mystery books it makes me feel more involved and like I’m trying to solve the case with them! For books that aren’t murder mystery I love to highlight my favourite quotes I’m going to start a book journal soon so I’m super excited!
I really love the discussion on you vs your professor with the highlighters!
it's really fun for me to underline stuff that stands out to me or write like lol or that was funny in a book and then i'll stick a tab on the page that i wrote on, but it's a super different way than i would annotate a book for school
When I was 7 I was struggling with vocabulary in a book and I would take a notepad, write the word, highlight it and look it up later. Love your videos!💙
I really loved how realistic you were about the methods and advised us to not get lost in the aesthetics and mainly read the books for fun (those not assigned for school)
Thank you! Thank you for going beyond the supplies used and explaining the details that you are looking for when it comes to annotation. As someone who never had to academically annotate, the process has often baffled me.
Finally!! I have been so excited for this video!
Back in the day I worked at Starbucks and had my hair in braids---by far the most comfortable hair style for working on busy mornings. A man came to the register and told me how much he "loves that look on a woman." He was a regular...I never wore braids to work again.
Ok, I loved the two highlighter tip! That it's so helpful for when I get into grad school :) (if I do lol) .... and I agree with "don't annotate for fun" it truly does distract from the reading if it is for fun.
I’ve always wanted to start annotating but didn’t really know how to get started. Thanks for this video!! :)
Your system for color tabs reminds me a lot of my own, but your other methods are new to me and I’ll definitely be using some of them in the future! Thanks!
I do pretty much the same thing, except I don’t write in the margins, I prefer getting a bigger post-it and write my comments on it. It helps me to get my thoughts out and helps me with writing reviews.
I personally love annotating my books because I’ll go back to it again and have a good laugh reading my notes! Plus it’s so satisfying to see all the highlights and tabs when your done !
I really loved this video - you explain annotation so much better than I have ever been able to! However, I really enjoy (like actually enjoy) to annotate the books that I read for fun. I think it's because I didn't have to annotate books in high school, and also I have so. many. thoughts. all the time that writing them in the margins of the books just makes sense to me and it makes the book a better and more fun experience for me.
This video was brilliant! Very helpful. Taking a novella class for an elective and I have to write a two to four page annotation. Not something I've ever done before. So thanks
I use postit tabs because I often see something described so well...or something I want to relive...or things I want to look into. I would forget...I don't want to forget...x
Your videos always make me a tiny bit happier. Like, I feel weirdly sad all of the sudden, I see new video, I click, I watch and BAM my mood is so much better.
Thank you
I hope this might help someone who does sciences:
I did a masters degree in biology so reading biology, chemistry, physics and math textbooks for school. I do miss my literature teachers from high school and reading for that. But for sciences you need to focus more on facts and on physical concepts of things relating to each other. What I do in my lecture notes or textbooks: I highlight everything I find interesting or hard to understand or relevant in yellow- so it might be just half a sentence or few paragraphs in a row, it really varies. And I go through chapter or 2 with just this one colour. And then I come back after reading to the end and look through all the highlighted parts and by then I find that many of them by now I understand or remember and they are not so relevant any more. And then I highlight only the hard / especially relevant parts and now I do it in either orange or green. This is also when I might add some notes on this to the margin as an explanation or link to some other concept or perhaps a good example I have come up with which I might use in an exam (professors really like other examples, not the ones given in textbooks/during lecture). Colours are selected so that the second round is more vivid and so that the first colour does not ruin the highlighter tip of the second colour when I go over it (orange and green both are mixes of yellow). This is then great that when need to revise for exam- if I have time I reread all (almost never happens), if I have less time I read just all highlighted parts, and if I left it 'til the last moment I just go over the second round colour parts and hope for the best :)
I use a lot of flags on my books, usually to mark a specific part or phrase that made me happy or curious, or something that i would like to remember... i love it.
i mostly annotate when i lovee books and re read them cause then it doesnt take away from the first time fun reading experience but sometimes i just wanna do more with the book than just read it so then i annotate :)
I use tabs to stay engaged too! I just like tabbing quotes/parts I like and it doesn't feel like an extra component.
omg the pastel tombows are so cute might have to invest
I love this way of annotating that’s simple because I read so much for school that it’s actually hard to keep track (especially this year where my professors have been addressing a lot of the same themes and ideas so I need to keep track of specifics since I can’t always remember the class it’s for 😭)
But also I do annotate for fun, just not heavy annotation, like if I’m reading a fun fantasy that I picked up in my own time, I’ll probably just read it, add a flag for parts that I liked or want to reference in my own writing, and then if I actually have a strong thought I might write a comment in the margins like that usually takes the form of a joke or reference to something else. But I’m also trying to use the library more for non-class books so that’ll probably change
academically, i highlight quotes in books and make written annotations in printed articles/texts. im not too fond of writing thoughts/questions in books bc i dont want to be reminded of it if i reread. in books i read for pleasure, i don't normally search for quotes but i like to keep a pencil with me just in case something really sticks out (this hardly happens since i read very fluffy contemporary). i like to think that if someone were to borrow one of my books they would treat it as their own and if they found one of my underlines it would be like they found some treasure i buried. (ik no one asked but i wanted to share) x
My absolute favorite thing is Noelle interrupting her sentences to have a little giggle at herself
your eyeliner is on point queen
Ty 🥺💞
I love Tombows too, only for adult coloring. I am fascinated by annotating, yet feel I can't since a lot of the books end up in my Little Free Library!
“The tip is so thicc” *laughs* I CACKLED
I really love the idea of using a separate color when noting things discussed in class. I’m definitely going to try that!
I really like that phrase "talk to the text" because I often think about the book as like an entity rather than considering the author when I read
Thank you thank you thank you!! I have always struggled with annotating when it comes to school/academically, and your systems have made it so much clearer to me! I will definitely have to start using these systems once school rolls around again in the next few weeks! Loved the video!
My Kindle system is:
Purple = Things that interest me
Yellow = I have left a note of my thoughts about this.
Blue = Quotes
Orange = New singular words I've never heard before.
this is the first video I've watched of you and I'm not even a minute in and I love you omg the way you talk is everything
when I annotate I keep one specific colour (it’s purple as of now) to highlight bits of the writing that I like and could take inspiration from then use similar phrases etc. into my own writing. It really helps my mind flow when I write.
The highlighting tips for school sound so helpful, I look forward to using it for college!
And I just saw a tombow ad too, guess I have to buy some more markers👀👀
I really respect how you annotate, because my annotations are a literal shitshow. One time, I highlighted the word "quagmire", I don't know why, I just like how the word sounded. Or I will sometimes write in the margins commenting on the characters. But, if someone ever found my books with annotations, I think they would be so concerned for my mental well being. Anyways, sending my love! :)
I don’t always annotate. It just starts to happen organically with some books. In my favorite books I have writing all through them. I also have multiple copies of my favorite books though. I need a solid system though. I kinda just do whatever and I wish I were more consistent. I love the tabs and two highlighter method. I’m gonna try that out!
Using this to help me annotate my A level code. I'm only in year 10, but I love that my computer science teacher believes in me and pushes me to my maximum potential. A lot of people think that it's typically men in this field but my computer science teacher does not have that bias, and has said on various different occasions that I am top of the class. I do rather hate annotating my code, it is ever so tiresome!
after hearing your confidence in the intro and then the joke… i immediately hit subscribe
The only thing I do for annotating for fun is add little tabs to quotes and moments that I enjoyed! And when reading anything from Stephen King I like to add a flag whenever I see a reference or easter egg of his other books, since he does that a lot.
Like I've finished reading The Outsider and it has a really sutil reference to Misery, which was awesome, so I added a little flag! :)
This is so helpful. I want to start annotating for fun first and then be able to do it for school.
i just finished undergrad last week, and i wish i watched this video earlier. your systems are dreamy to me
I have always loved literature but sadly or not I diverged to business school(uhmm.. life!) n now watching this video you make me want to go back in time n change my choices to studying literature & annotate all the books in the world ... 😁 b'cos you make "annotation" sound so cool 😃
ooo I love your purpose for circling words/phrases. 📖⭕️✍🏻
Personally, I LOVE annotating my books. The more into a book I am, the more I'll annotate, but I usually at the very least highlight favorite quotes, and I almost always write in the margins. It's not always big scholarly notes or anything, sometimes I just write "Asshole" next to a paragraph where a character does something awful, or draw a laughing face when I think something's funny, or a heart, but there's always something going on. I find that when I don't do that, I don't have as much fun with the book, and also don't always retain what I'm reading.
Just found this channel and OMG.. I love your attitude so much! Your "I'm all those things" comment when you pulled out It made me laugh! Girlpower! Ima go watch a bunch more of your videos now. Girl power! Let's do it!
Nobody asked but here are my own systems
Post it flags:
No color coding, flags at the sides point out a specific paragraph, flags in the upper side point out a whole page or pages (I usually also highlight the page numbers so I know where does the important situation end)
Highlighters and pens:
I use gel highlighters for my books and no color coding. I highlight important lines or cute quotes, anything that seems meaningful. I used to use pens to point out paragraphs too big to be highlighted but not as important to stick a flag.
Regular post its:
I use them to write questions, theories and opinions relating the plot or a character. Just so I can have proof that I guessed some plot twist and feel like I'm smart for doing it or feel stupid for how wrong my theory was.
Notebook:
I use this method for somewhat complex book series or books that I know I wont finish beacuse of school.
I make a list of characters and a brief summary of who they are so when I go to the next book the next year I'll remember who the characters are. If a character dies I highlight it.
If there's a magic system with spells or a weird fake language I write them down too.
If there are definitions of things (example muggle) I write it down too and I also write the names of things that remain a mystery.
I only use the notebook method for Brandon Sanderson's books and a few other book series with lots of characters or series that I know will take some time to finish.
THANK YOU!! I'm annotating for the first time for a book needed for a class, and this helped me so much!!
What a system you have there! This is not a critique, of course, but the changing colors for different books can be problematic with time, but if it works for you, enjoy! I can see it working if one adds a little note the first time one uses each color saying what they mean for that book. When I can, I use color functionally. One color, for instance, deals with intertextuality (references to other books), another with contextual/historical references, etc. Now, I know that sounds like work but it can be fun: sometimes it feels like finding little treasures within the pages.
Each one is different and this shows it quite clearly: while Kat is pure chaos, you are more organized and so on. Really interesting video!