By: Lottie Bynum
To annotate a book there are some supplies that would be helpful:
- Page Tabs (in lots of colors)
- Pen that won’t bleed through book pages
- Clear sticky notes
- Pencil
To annotate I start by reading through the whole book and dog-earing pages I like or want to tab. After that I go back and find book tabs that match the cover of the book for aesthetic purposes; from those tabs I designate each color to a theme. For example I have a purple themed book with a range of purple and pink tabs, the lightest is classified as cute, a more lavender is noted to be funny, and each has a description of what they mark. At the beginning of the book I put one tab in each color with what it notes written on it to mark an index if someone wants to see what the tab colors represent. After that I go through and start placing tabs at the top of the side of the pages in descending order to where they are in the book. Page ten starts at the top and on page twenty the next tab goes below it. It takes me about 30 minutes to an hour to finish tabbing a book of 300-400 pages. You can continue by writing notes in the margins or if you don’t like marking in the book you can write the notes on clear sticky notes and stick them in the book. I have also considered drawing in the book if that’s what I feel like. In the beginning of chapters it’s fun to decorate and draw in the extra blank space on the page, it gives the book a sense of life to add pictures, descriptions or notes. Tabbing and annotating a book is up to whoever does it and is open to many different ways of tabbing and annotating. It takes time to find your own style of annotation whether it’s similar to this or not. It’s supposed to be a fun and helpful way to enjoy a book.
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