← Home ← Back to /lit/

Thread 24785237

24 posts 6 images /lit/
Anonymous No.24785237 >>24785243 >>24785260 >>24785281 >>24785316 >>24785867 >>24785995 >>24787651 >>24788858
People who write on their books and litter them with sticky notes are disgusting weirdos.
Anonymous No.24785243
>>24785237 (OP)
I agree, I've always hated doing that since I was in school but the teacher made us do it and then checked the notes, I guess to make sure we were actually reading it.
Anonymous No.24785244
This is misogyny. But you are right, sadly.
Anonymous No.24785249
It makes sense if it's a nonfiction book that you often use as a reference, but otherwise I agree
Anonymous No.24785255
Can you imagine buying a second hand paperback of a classic with hundreds of paper pages that probably required some decent time and money to produce, and inside it's just covered in retarded adolescent ramblings?

>"Dostoevsky touches my soul like no other..."
>"This passage raped me, I'm such a deep feeler."
>*Highlights every single sentence of a two-page monologue*
>*Sketch of a sad girl smoking in the margins*
/co/nspirator No.24785260 >>24785263 >>24789969
>>24785237 (OP)
>OP has never studied law
I am happy for your ignorance, anon.
Anonymous No.24785263 >>24785313
>>24785260
I'm talking about novels mostly. It's a trend now online for young people to write their super brave and insightful comments on a book literally in the book itself.
Anonymous No.24785281 >>24787651
>>24785237 (OP)
Why are women like this
Anonymous No.24785313 >>24790038
>>24785263
I do this
Anonymous No.24785316
>>24785237 (OP)
>read a book
>what I'm reading provokes an interesting thought
Why should I not write it down?

>read an insightful passage that I may want to return to
Why should I not put a note on the page so that I can easily find it again?
Anonymous No.24785620 >>24785671
Countless great authors and philosophers wrote in their books. Even Aristotle wrote on his copy of The Iliad, which he gave to Alexander the Great.
Anonymous No.24785671
>>24785620
This
The people who don't take notes or write marginalia at all are almost certainly shallow readers
Of course, I have also seen what one might consider the obverse failing; copious 'notes' and highlighting and scribblings that say nothing at all
I suppose there might be some deep readers who strictly keep their notes in separate notebooks, but I don't know of any
Anonymous No.24785812 >>24785861
If you aspire to write fiction I think it makes sense to do this with novels.
Anonymous No.24785861
>>24785812
Why would you write notes in the book itself? Just use a journal or a writing app like a normal person.

Can you imagine how retarded that would be practically? Everytime you want to see comments and thoughts you had about a book, you have to physically go find the book and find the page number with your ballpoint pen comment instead of just looking at your phone.
Anonymous No.24785867 >>24786005 >>24786047
>>24785237 (OP)
>case #4172625161899 of 4channers being unlikable contrarians
The best thing you can do with something you love is use it
Anonymous No.24785977
>not drawing little figures that move as you flip through the pages really fast
Anonymous No.24785995
>>24785237 (OP)
you're probably not even a teen writer
Anonymous No.24786005
>>24785867
I love the walls in my house, I'm gonna start writing all over them.
Anonymous No.24786047
>>24785867
>The best thing you can do with something you love is use it
you use a book by reading it, not turning it into an arts-and-crafts project. what the women who do this shit actually "love" are post-it notes and highlighters.
Anonymous No.24787651 >>24788853
>>24785237 (OP)
>>24785281
DFW did this...
Anonymous No.24788853
>>24787651
Yeah, and look what happened to him. He fucking died. There's a lesson in that.
Anonymous No.24788858
>>24785237 (OP)
It's performative "oh look how much of a bookworm I am teeheehee" bullshit. I've never seen anyone do this IRL, but boy, do you see a lot on social media.
Anonymous No.24789969
>>24785260
Kek
Anonymous No.24790038
>>24785313
And you look like this