Make them yours

This is a kind of a response post to the video below, so you might want to watch  that first.

I had a bit of an epiphany while watching that video just some minutes ago; why should I not annotate my books while reading? Why shouldn't I, when my philosophy with books is that they can and should look read. I love when my books are not perfect, why couldn't I for example underline my favourite quotes or comment if something is really great or really bad?

I like the idea of annotating, though I wouldn't go as far as Ariel does in that video. She writes over the paragraphs, and dog-ears the pages, which are things I couldn't do. But little comments, underlining? It would make the book personal, and it would make it my version, just like Ariel says. And maybe, some day, someone would be delighted to find out that I had made little comments in a book they have borrowed. I think I would be. It would feel like you weren't reading the book alone, but with someone else.

So maybe from now on, I might annotate some of my books, Maybe. I can't say for sure, but this video really got me thinking about that. Because sometimes I have read a passage so amazing and perfect, that I have had to write it down, when I could have just underlined it. 

Interesting. 

And now I have the urge to read all of my favourite books again as soon as possible and annotate them.

As an end note, though, I would like to say that please do not annotate borrowed books without permission. I wouldn't like it, and I feel I'm in the majority with this one.