>>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.
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*
>>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.
>>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
>>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.
>>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.
>>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.
