/lit/ - Literature

>>4573868

Becomes a part of you

How do people take notes?

I never make notes, I have before but I never found this to be useful in any way. Usually I just read a book and that's it, maybe talk about it with the only other one person I know who reads, and if I enjoyed it deeply I'll probably read it again. But that's about it.

>>4573878
Margins or in a journal. I keep a notepad with me and write shit down all the time, poetry, observations, all that good stuff. I keep my notes from my reading on a notebook or on my computer since I take out most of my books from the library.

>>4573882
It all depends on what you're reading. With fiction or poetry, quotations are pretty much all you write down (and with poetry you never write anything down until after you've read the entire poem, unless it's an epic poem). But shit like philosophy and social theory are a bit different.

All you americunts are so full of yourselves.
I do as second poster.

>>4573868
I have noticed that talking about books greatly increases your memory and experience of them.

For instance the saga of the volsungs was so much better when I got to talk about it with a classmate who had also read it and is a fan of Wagner/Norse mythology in general.

>>4573885
>>4573883
I will bang you til your cheeks are red and your knees rugburned. I will choke you til you cum. What? Don't like it rough? This isn't for your enjoyment. It's for mine and man will I ever... You won't be able to tell your vag bag from a deceased watermelon

>>4574539
if you're trying to bully someone on 4chan you can use harsher words than "bang"
please consider the impact of your words, your inner motivations, your reason for being here and so on

>>4573868
I take notes on a drawing pad while reading, but I usually throw them out. Sometimes it's for quotes but usually just to keep track of lines of thought.

>>4574609
Screwtape I'll expand my lexicon for you, 'fuck' won't even begin to suffice. New words will have to be invented for all the nastiness I will do to you. I will gnahb your vorgol to oblivion. Your drencrom will be drenched in vellocet and crom cam etcetc

>>4574661
>New words will have to be invented for all the nastiness I will do to you.
I appreciate the structure of this sentence, especially use of tense.

I use notecards a lot but little scratch pads work better

>>4574661
>>4574539

I don't know what's going on here, but I'm enjoying it

I draw big gay history timelines when I read history stuff. I do it in a huge pad. I have fuckloads for many timelines/civs now.

If it's literary fiction I just try to think about it a lot and write down my thoughts if I manage to ~totally get what the author was doing there~.

If it's for citations in an essay I take fuckloads of notes in a word document, then rearrange them into categories by book rather than by author, then according to what order they'll go into the essay, then I highlight them as I use them.

Created my own chart and take notes. I would like to track my thought process, the character development/portrayal, and favorite quotes.
Now I'm so used to taking notes, I won't move onto another chapter unless I take notes