Summary: Marking and annotating books enhances your reading experience by helping you engage more deeply with the text. Using a consistent color-coding system for notes allows you to track important details and themes easily. This practice not only makes books feel more personal but also improves your understanding and retention of the material.
Marking and annotating your books makes them thoroughly your own. You’ll investigate them, shake out their every detail, become intrigued by the smallest of those details, and you’ll find you have so many points of curiosity that you want to explore. (View Highlight)
When you mark and annotate a book you become more conscious of their connections to other books you have read. (View Highlight)
Black: For general underlining and marginal notations.
Red: For vocabulary, key terminology, and references to other literary works.
Blue: For characters/historical persons.
Green: For dates and events.
Purple: For places (cities, states, countries, particular businesses, schools, etc.) (View Highlight)
7 main virtues and their corresponding vices (Cardinal and Theological). The Cardinal Virtues are Prudence, Temperance, Fortitude, and Justice. The Theological Virtues are Faith, Hope, and Love. (View Highlight)
three major categories for the kinds of questions you can ask anyone (or any book) (View Highlight)