Issue 80: The no-bullshit guide to annotating your books

Or, at least, a good excuse to use up your collection of nice office supplies

If you are the kind of person who has a hard time finding time to read as much as you would like, you might be wondering why on Earth you would ever even want to think about ANNOTATING your books. Doesn’t that take a lot of time that you already don’t have?! It does take extra time but, hear me out. It’s totally worth it.

But first let me back up. I was never taught how to do this in school. I took one English class in college and - if you have been reading this newsletter for a little while, you probably can already tell - I have no idea how (or care to) really write a proper book review. BUT. I love to read and the older I get, the more I want to go DEEP in all areas of my life - my relationships, my conversations with random people on the internet, my inner monologue. So, this desire to annotate my books in order to get into them more deeply is somewhat new to me and it is not a nostalgic reliving of my college days. I just am tired of superficiality of all kinds. I have no time fo…