How to Annotate Your Books for Effective Note-Taking

Timestamps below:

0:10 - how to OWN a book & 3 different types of readers
2:35 - books you DON’T mark
3:20 - the books we’re marking in this video
4:50 - my marking system (indexes, underlinings, circles, stars, etc)
7:30 - rereading being the most important part of reading
9:20 - consider the work as another art form (e.g. opera, painting)
10:00 - tie your markings into your aim
10:30 - slow active reading vs fast passive reading
11:30 - the book examples
11:40 - how to make an index (How to Read and Why by Bloom)
17:49 - dog-ears and indexes (How to Read a Book by Adler)
18:45 - indexes, notes, conversations (Plato’s Republic)
22:43 - reading fiction like non-fiction (The Sign of the Four by Conan Doyle)
24:48 - marking for memory (Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche)
26:58 - marking philosophy and footnote follow-ups (‘On Liberty’ by Mill)
28:39 - marking poetry (Rumi)
30:57 - the Bible and keeping a journal 
31:48 - making notes on plays, King Lear, and scraps of paper
32:36 - notes on computer
34:02 - notes on Kindle 
35:45 - owning the greatest books ever written
36:55 - marking fiction (Anna Karenina by Tolstoy)
37:50 - 4 questions to consider when reading a book

Books you should buy and mark:
- How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler: amzn.to/2M3r0gw
- How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom: amzn.to/3c5cIGM

What book are you going to mark first?