5 Classic book nerd things I will not be doing

While I admire some of these booktok girlies, I am not fully committed to the life, I have inconsistent goblin brain that will not allow it.

1. I will not be annotating

It looks so pretty when you do it but I cannot be fucked.

Literally, cannot be asked, or I would lose interest halfway. I don’t have the consistency, I don’t have enough interesting things to say, or I would get too into the book and not do the annotation.

It will never be me. However much I want the aesthetic, I’m just not that girl.

2. I will not be adding colour coded tabs

One, they piss me off when I’m reading.

Two, same reason as above, I cannot be fucked.

Three, I would forget to do it halfway.

Oh, I know how satisfying it is to look at the end and it’s really cool when you can see at a glance whatever specific thing you wanted to highlight but it’s just not for me.

Also, I don’t have the storage space for books with little tabby Mohawks, we are at capacity.

3. I will not be keeping a reading journal

I’ve tried so many times. I bought pretty purpose built journals, I drew lines in pretty notebooks with sections to fill out, I bought the coloured pens and highlighters.

The problem is, I have zero consistency. It always dies within a few months. The best solution I’ve found is using my phones notes app, with inconsistent capitalisation and I forget to up date that half the time. Thank fuck for Storygraph, which has somehow been the only solution for my stupid little brain.

Plus, I guess I review them on this blog… So I’ve really gone the long way round for a solution.

4. I will not be making a pretty little TBR basket/ cart separate to my book shelves.

My TBR? You’re looking at it on the wall already. It’s the entire fucking thing.

Plus, who has the space? I live in a shoebox.

5. I will not have more than four books on the go at once

Even four is a stretch, two of them will always be audios – one of which is an extremely easy listen. And I can still barely cope.

How the fuck do you do that? And why aren’t you finishing the fucking books? That would infuriate me.

What bookish culture things have you rejected? I just want to read tbh and hoard them like a little dragon.

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