UGH I also do NOT write in books, I do, however, tab my books when I want to remember a good or shocking part. But I do try to take care of them, as I hate dog-earring and the like :X
I love writing in my book also tab it and my books are really messy I do that because I love going through my feelings and thoughts while reading the book and love looking back at it
Wow, I watch tons of videos on annotations and you and I are the only annotators I have found who use dollar store tabs. I also love the arrow see through tabs and I write on them because I can’t bring myself to write on my books. I go every month to the dollar stores in my area and I always buy out whatever amount they have, so I’m never without. Great post, thank you for sharing
You make me want to reread all of my books and start tabbing them. I have tanned about 3 books so far and surprisingly enjoyed it. Now I’m able to flip back to certain pages of the book I want to read or use for the future. I created a system at the time but now I think I might change it because I noticed I would use the same 2 colors over and over. I agree with you on the tabs sticking out thing. I will take them out multiple times because it bothers me how far they stick out. Some still do, I just haven’t taken the time to go back and fix it.
I've been trying to understand why and how anyone would even want to annotate a book; other than a travel guide or reference book, or for a study course. Your video is the best one I've seen so far. It makes sense to me that you have the color key in the front of the book.
Huh. For me it’s the opposite. When I’m not enjoying a book I don’t feel the need to tab it because I don’t think I’ll reread and don’t find much interesting but my favorite books are the most tabbed I own.
I've been tabbing my books for a few years (although my process has changed recently) and I should probably film an updated video for it. But I think the most significant change now, especially for rereads, is tracking characters that I love - especially the minor characters over a series. But I most consistently tab favourite quotes and character relationships. (I also hoard page flags!)
I've never really tabbed my books, just put a sticky note for some cute moment but after the third reread I know exactly where the scene I like are ... I wanna try and tab my book more and I have a collection of tab on my nightstand for whenever I feel like it
Totally agree that tabbing/annotating adds to the reading experience. I'm not a fan of writing in my books either, but I've always been fond of using sticky notes to write down my thoughts on a certain passage or to write down quotes and then I just leave them in the book for future me to find during re-reads. I've since changed that to using a reading journal to write down my thoughts as I go along reading, and I now use a color coded tabbing system as well. It's interesting to hear that you try to match your tabs to the cover of the book you're reading. I don't think I've ever come across anyone else who matches their tabs that way! I love seeing that difference in how we annotate/tab/treat our books, so thanks for sharing your process with us. It's always fun getting a peek into how other people enjoy their books :')
I love tabbing up fantasies. Normally I just use the generic colors. I have scenes that made me mad, love scenes, important quotes or powerful scenes, things that made me laugh, and things that made me cry. Contemporaries and fantasies are my two main things I tab up.
My tabs also change from book to book and so does the length I stick them out. On one book I was reading I stuck the tabs out so all the color was showing (a quarter was colored and the rest of it sticky and clear) and on another I put out just a little bit. I usually end up tabbing character growth, commentary on society, and foreshadowing as well as scenes I hated or loved.
I find it a lot more fun to annotate books digitally. On the Iphone books app it gives you a variety of highlighter colors and all you have to do is hit the notes button and it shows you every part you highlighted and the notes you wrote with it (if you did) and its just extremely easy to go back and look at what you annotated.
I mostly tab quotes or scenes that I like and sometimes I tab things I want to remember as I’m reading. I like your idea for the key in the front. I need to do that.
hey sorry im very late but i recommend re reading books and then tabbing them. it takes forever to tab when your reading a book with no idea of what’s going to happen but when you re read it, it usely goes faster so then you can tab easier. i highly recommend it ! ✨
@@juliam_x Absolutely agree with you. That habit was ingrained in me at uni. But even with rereads, it still slows me down too much. My most succesful tabbing project was actually a series I read for the third or fourth time 😅 I think it’s a downside to being a really quick reader 🤔 But I haven’t given up on the idea, I just need more practice ☺️
I already tab and annotate my books occasionally (for the same reasons as you!) but I’m really glad you showed the books you do tab because I LOOOOVE the idea of putting a paper/note in the front explaining the colors! That sounds super helpful and also low key looks cute!
I haven't tabbed in so long but I am currently reading Lady Midnight and Kingdom of Ash and I have started back doing so. I like matching the tabs to the cover as well. Seeing all the tabbed books make me want to go buy some tabs and read all my books.
I'm not a tabber but the one thing I often find I go back and search for is when I can't remember who a particular minor character is, then I spend five minutes trying to find when they first showed up in the story to reorient myself. That would be a good thing to tab - the first time time a a character appears. Also maybe anything that I might be important and used later in the plot, like a historical connection or an omen or series of tasks... Hmmmm.
@@charcoalpagess we have a book cupboard in town there are some, or I got one from a friend, or sometimes you can find them in bookstores. It's really just a Luck thing tbf
I love this! I'm also a huge tabber...discovered it about a year and a half ago and can't read any fantasy book I love without doing it! I tend to keep the same meaning for each color, but I will change slightly. Especially since all the same colors tend to run out 🙈
Nice video. I like how you are still finding things to post even in quarantine. Bravo to you for all your creative energy. Stay safe. Stay home. Wash your hands and don't touch your face.
I've found that I tend to tab a lot more at the beginning of book then the end because once I get to climax of the plot im so into it that I don't slow down and stop to tab things. On the most recent book I read I ended up not using a system and only tabbed important moments that really developed the relationship of the two main characters since it was a romance.
I feel like when u r reading more of a book series thing the first book will be less tab-y but the further u get in the more detail everything has in my opinion
Ooooo. I have used packs of those tabs from the Dollar Tree for other things. The colors are great. They are rarely in stock :( I have one pack left... that I won't open until I can get another pack. LOL!
ACoMaF is my most tabbed book too! My colour scheme for it - Red - Relationships (romantic and platonic) Green - Dialogue or conversation Orange - Really fucking high sexual tension or smut Blue - Important scenes Yellow - Sad stuff...like sad.
Hi ! I bought a pack on Ebay and they worked out really well for me ! And looks like their prices went down since I bought them ! (www.ebay.com/itm/1600pcs-Neon-Arrow-Memo-Sticky-Notes-Sign-Here-Flag-Tabs-Classroom-Supply-5-Pads/202652524182?_trkparms=ispr%3D1&hash=item2f2f081e96:g:ekoAAOSwv~tcsRDH&amdata=enc%3DAQAEAAACYIQvEcHUrT7nmUC3yY5qbPyaBN1nJEDYW8MyypsJPgXKCsFG3Zkm%252FydhIZrjCFJJ0l5pP77xeiEZ%252F2eKKKVeAOtSoZqAQ2hvGvOPDYfIweNKiqAto6wHzcAFUmx1eEWu%252BPtdxOC2RA8txYA%252BjGXQPMfjCHCC2vqpLMRtVMDY6Hx6tMHJd01pj3noRuSmWscZ3%252FMN0BNT%252BQT44SggGOKGmADD6zHGGjw6t3BICZBN4ax0t4INeIMd8dU4%252FbrW7LYm0SBFIk7L%252FDpiTMNsLit6%252Bdn8BvVQkOdVXURkTbpJTOGOEuduk4rpAHMRi3JWzj8ByjdxbHZ7G%252FNqc9Bi0d2Xff0xeudaCHhrdQpu757zoRyc03h62onW0DBfCo1j6%252BsWlIuqnBcwu1Fd1XvvEBELdGMHmKB%252F8nEJ4pFIOgq8qDpBqgAcx3MNqWp%252FUnENOdj7sxsIefPBdL%252FO6w4%252Bbt7z4O38M%252FZE0aeCiOuZSw1SY5%252B58BdngyEfjVWv1bU6tR4C%252BUxVruqbXht9kxETyB0rMKnxZnFiqhkX7%252FyCRzR6zGKf%252F%252FLssmYhnNC32XlclS%252BOepuqYGaoZ4i6r7jvSf7c9f4c0eeqBmUP2TmgQ8eW5E8%252FvT313%252F0rDaQQD4aIMJn7B%252B%252FKR5tqCVM%252Bv2LzfhiVYuHcSx%252FeGWb5u48WV%252F2QBLlqn4SDyDadsEOXJpdwDq4gqbZlCtGXllJZ%252B3Vf2T1cPbzs19nwbG0D%252B3Y%252FoVRARVnP7qSE8wJ2Q4fNw9QjhWwT%252FRnyfkjioTkiCfckOt115T5UXTRzKiihnhiS3bS0FO2l%26cksum%3D20265252418249ffc496f31e44409ff8280bca7e7712%26ampid%3DPL_CLK%26clp%3D2334524) sorry that’s super long
For those of you looking for steamy scenes... I have a secret one no one in this generation knows anything about. You don't need to read the whole book, and you wouldn't need to, because you may have seen the movie and already know the story. The thing is that they *completely eliminated that particular chapter from the movie*!! What book is it? You won't believe it... Jaws. Yes, the shark movie. It's a book written in the 70s and Chapter 8 was TOTALLY ignored for the movie. If you want extra fun, see the movie then read Chapter 8. You'll see what I mean, NO mention WHATSOEVER of what happens in there! LOL... but it's steeaammy!! You could even just find the book at a bookstore and never even buy it, but Jaws in print is actually really good. You get to read what the shark is thinking. The author Peter Benchley did an excellent job there and it never came across in the movie. Happy reading!
I’m still working my way through ACOMAF 😪 I got almost halfway- Tamlin found a way to be even more trash in this book tho lol,,,, Hopefully I finish it soon !! Though something tells me I’ll have to re-read the first book (it’s been a while)
“I love me a good steamy scene” GIRL YES THAT IS WHAT WE ARE ALL HERE FOR- nobody lie about this 😂👏🏽
yooo the “why tamlin is trash” scenes would take up every orange tab ever 👏🏽👏🏽💀 js
UGH I also do NOT write in books, I do, however, tab my books when I want to remember a good or shocking part.
But I do try to take care of them, as I hate dog-earring and the like :X
I love writing in my book also tab it and my books are really messy I do that because I love going through my feelings and thoughts while reading the book and love looking back at it
Wow, I watch tons of videos on annotations and you and I are the only annotators I have found who use dollar store tabs. I also love the arrow see through tabs and I write on them because I can’t bring myself to write on my books. I go every month to the dollar stores in my area and I always buy out whatever amount they have, so I’m never without. Great post, thank you for sharing
You make me want to reread all of my books and start tabbing them.
I have tanned about 3 books so far and surprisingly enjoyed it. Now I’m able to flip back to certain pages of the book I want to read or use for the future. I created a system at the time but now I think I might change it because I noticed I would use the same 2 colors over and over.
I agree with you on the tabs sticking out thing. I will take them out multiple times because it bothers me how far they stick out. Some still do, I just haven’t taken the time to go back and fix it.
I LOVE THE HAIR
such a fan of the bright sassy lime green and the look on you ahhhhh
I wish I had the patience to tab my books 😭
I've been trying to understand why and how anyone would even want to annotate a book; other than a travel guide or reference book, or for a study course. Your video is the best one I've seen so far. It makes sense to me that you have the color key in the front of the book.
I find that I only tab up books that I'm not enjoying. I put down a tab and a note for why I don't like that part of the book.
That is so smart
Huh. For me it’s the opposite. When I’m not enjoying a book I don’t feel the need to tab it because I don’t think I’ll reread and don’t find much interesting but my favorite books are the most tabbed I own.
I've been tabbing my books for a few years (although my process has changed recently) and I should probably film an updated video for it. But I think the most significant change now, especially for rereads, is tracking characters that I love - especially the minor characters over a series. But I most consistently tab favourite quotes and character relationships.
(I also hoard page flags!)
I've never really tabbed my books, just put a sticky note for some cute moment but after the third reread I know exactly where the scene I like are ... I wanna try and tab my book more and I have a collection of tab on my nightstand for whenever I feel like it
Totally agree that tabbing/annotating adds to the reading experience. I'm not a fan of writing in my books either, but I've always been fond of using sticky notes to write down my thoughts on a certain passage or to write down quotes and then I just leave them in the book for future me to find during re-reads. I've since changed that to using a reading journal to write down my thoughts as I go along reading, and I now use a color coded tabbing system as well.
It's interesting to hear that you try to match your tabs to the cover of the book you're reading. I don't think I've ever come across anyone else who matches their tabs that way! I love seeing that difference in how we annotate/tab/treat our books, so thanks for sharing your process with us. It's always fun getting a peek into how other people enjoy their books :')
I love tabbing up fantasies. Normally I just use the generic colors. I have scenes that made me mad, love scenes, important quotes or powerful scenes, things that made me laugh, and things that made me cry. Contemporaries and fantasies are my two main things I tab up.
My tabs also change from book to book and so does the length I stick them out. On one book I was reading I stuck the tabs out so all the color was showing (a quarter was colored and the rest of it sticky and clear) and on another I put out just a little bit. I usually end up tabbing character growth, commentary on society, and foreshadowing as well as scenes I hated or loved.
I do this digitally, I highlight my ebooks using different colours for different info and it really does add something to the reading experience 😊
I find it a lot more fun to annotate books digitally. On the Iphone books app it gives you a variety of highlighter colors and all you have to do is hit the notes button and it shows you every part you highlighted and the notes you wrote with it (if you did) and its just extremely easy to go back and look at what you annotated.
I mostly tab quotes or scenes that I like and sometimes I tab things I want to remember as I’m reading. I like your idea for the key in the front. I need to do that.
I keep wanting to get into tabbing my books but I find that it slows my reading down soooo much, so now I never get around to it.
hey sorry im very late but i recommend re reading books and then tabbing them. it takes forever to tab when your reading a book with no idea of what’s going to happen but when you re read it, it usely goes faster so then you can tab easier. i highly recommend it ! ✨
@@juliam_x Absolutely agree with you. That habit was ingrained in me at uni. But even with rereads, it still slows me down too much. My most succesful tabbing project was actually a series I read for the third or fourth time 😅 I think it’s a downside to being a really quick reader 🤔 But I haven’t given up on the idea, I just need more practice ☺️
I love your sense of humor 😂
I already tab and annotate my books occasionally (for the same reasons as you!) but I’m really glad you showed the books you do tab because I LOOOOVE the idea of putting a paper/note in the front explaining the colors! That sounds super helpful and also low key looks cute!
I haven't tabbed in so long but I am currently reading Lady Midnight and Kingdom of Ash and I have started back doing so. I like matching the tabs to the cover as well. Seeing all the tabbed books make me want to go buy some tabs and read all my books.
Will have to check out Dollar Tree (when we can get out), I also am very particular by the depth of the tag! Glad I'm not the only one.
I'm not a tabber but the one thing I often find I go back and search for is when I can't remember who a particular minor character is, then I spend five minutes trying to find when they first showed up in the story to reorient myself. That would be a good thing to tab - the first time time a a character appears. Also maybe anything that I might be important and used later in the plot, like a historical connection or an omen or series of tasks... Hmmmm.
I don't annotate my books usually but I do like buying annotated books
where do u find annotated book? i've always wanted to find it
@@charcoalpagess we have a book cupboard in town there are some, or I got one from a friend, or sometimes you can find them in bookstores. It's really just a Luck thing tbf
I love this! I'm also a huge tabber...discovered it about a year and a half ago and can't read any fantasy book I love without doing it!
I tend to keep the same meaning for each color, but I will change slightly. Especially since all the same colors tend to run out 🙈
MaedInTransit I accidentally commented with my non-booktube account 😫damn hahah
I use the Dollar Tree ones too! :D
I’m not a tabber so this was interesting!
Nice video. I like how you are still finding things to post even in quarantine. Bravo to you for all your creative energy. Stay safe. Stay home. Wash your hands and don't touch your face.
I've found that I tend to tab a lot more at the beginning of book then the end because once I get to climax of the plot im so into it that I don't slow down and stop to tab things. On the most recent book I read I ended up not using a system and only tabbed important moments that really developed the relationship of the two main characters since it was a romance.
I feel like when u r reading more of a book series thing the first book will be less tab-y but the further u get in the more detail everything has in my opinion
I relate to the can't stick out farther than the book. 😁
my most common tabs are "quotes to put under a book aesthetic" and "dresses i might sew one day" lol.
Yesss, who doesn’t like the sound of a hard book cover
I just use the tabs that suit best the book, but in terms of category it is the same color for everything xD
Ooooo. I have used packs of those tabs from the Dollar Tree for other things. The colors are great. They are rarely in stock :( I have one pack left... that I won't open until I can get another pack. LOL!
omg i just snagged the last 3 they had this week I was so lowwww
ACoMaF is my most tabbed book too! My colour scheme for it -
Red - Relationships (romantic and platonic)
Green - Dialogue or conversation
Orange - Really fucking high sexual tension or smut
Blue - Important scenes
Yellow - Sad stuff...like sad.
I am not a "Tabber", but I love the look of the finished books.
Hi! Do you have any recommendations for a pack that's order-able? I'm in quarantine and I can't go to get tabs at a store.
Hi ! I bought a pack on Ebay and they worked out really well for me ! And looks like their prices went down since I bought them ! (www.ebay.com/itm/1600pcs-Neon-Arrow-Memo-Sticky-Notes-Sign-Here-Flag-Tabs-Classroom-Supply-5-Pads/202652524182?_trkparms=ispr%3D1&hash=item2f2f081e96:g:ekoAAOSwv~tcsRDH&amdata=enc%3DAQAEAAACYIQvEcHUrT7nmUC3yY5qbPyaBN1nJEDYW8MyypsJPgXKCsFG3Zkm%252FydhIZrjCFJJ0l5pP77xeiEZ%252F2eKKKVeAOtSoZqAQ2hvGvOPDYfIweNKiqAto6wHzcAFUmx1eEWu%252BPtdxOC2RA8txYA%252BjGXQPMfjCHCC2vqpLMRtVMDY6Hx6tMHJd01pj3noRuSmWscZ3%252FMN0BNT%252BQT44SggGOKGmADD6zHGGjw6t3BICZBN4ax0t4INeIMd8dU4%252FbrW7LYm0SBFIk7L%252FDpiTMNsLit6%252Bdn8BvVQkOdVXURkTbpJTOGOEuduk4rpAHMRi3JWzj8ByjdxbHZ7G%252FNqc9Bi0d2Xff0xeudaCHhrdQpu757zoRyc03h62onW0DBfCo1j6%252BsWlIuqnBcwu1Fd1XvvEBELdGMHmKB%252F8nEJ4pFIOgq8qDpBqgAcx3MNqWp%252FUnENOdj7sxsIefPBdL%252FO6w4%252Bbt7z4O38M%252FZE0aeCiOuZSw1SY5%252B58BdngyEfjVWv1bU6tR4C%252BUxVruqbXht9kxETyB0rMKnxZnFiqhkX7%252FyCRzR6zGKf%252F%252FLssmYhnNC32XlclS%252BOepuqYGaoZ4i6r7jvSf7c9f4c0eeqBmUP2TmgQ8eW5E8%252FvT313%252F0rDaQQD4aIMJn7B%252B%252FKR5tqCVM%252Bv2LzfhiVYuHcSx%252FeGWb5u48WV%252F2QBLlqn4SDyDadsEOXJpdwDq4gqbZlCtGXllJZ%252B3Vf2T1cPbzs19nwbG0D%252B3Y%252FoVRARVnP7qSE8wJ2Q4fNw9QjhWwT%252FRnyfkjioTkiCfckOt115T5UXTRzKiihnhiS3bS0FO2l%26cksum%3D20265252418249ffc496f31e44409ff8280bca7e7712%26ampid%3DPL_CLK%26clp%3D2334524) sorry that’s super long
For those of you looking for steamy scenes... I have a secret one no one in this generation knows anything about. You don't need to read the whole book, and you wouldn't need to, because you may have seen the movie and already know the story. The thing is that they *completely eliminated that particular chapter from the movie*!! What book is it? You won't believe it...
Jaws.
Yes, the shark movie. It's a book written in the 70s and Chapter 8 was TOTALLY ignored for the movie. If you want extra fun, see the movie then read Chapter 8. You'll see what I mean, NO mention WHATSOEVER of what happens in there! LOL... but it's steeaammy!!
You could even just find the book at a bookstore and never even buy it, but Jaws in print is actually really good. You get to read what the shark is thinking. The author Peter Benchley did an excellent job there and it never came across in the movie.
Happy reading!
I really wanted to get my septum pierced for my 21st b-day today but everything is closed. Feeling awful right now but loved this video.
I will start to implement more rules.!!!
Yaaaaaaaaayyyyyy so happy you did this!!!!!
I sometimes just cut the tabs at the end if they are sticking out. Im just to lazy to pay attention to it while im reading i guess. HAHAH
14 minutes I was screaming ME!
WHY AM I SO EXCITED FOR THIS VIDEO lmaooooo
Look on AliExpress or wish for the page flags 😁
I’m still working my way through ACOMAF 😪 I got almost halfway- Tamlin found a way to be even more trash in this book tho lol,,,, Hopefully I finish it soon !! Though something tells me I’ll have to re-read the first book (it’s been a while)
Ame tu video y la forma de usar los posit ♥️
gracias!!! 💚
Do you re-read the books on your shelf?
I just vibes with you and sk8ter boi
I love this❤️
I just get the cheapest tabs I can find and use em, I've been out of tabs for months and I miss them but what can ya do😂
What's an otp
One True Pairing - when you really like a couple together
What is otp?
One True Pairing, a couple you like together