How To Annotate Books with Fable
Jan 14 2023
Around the world, people are sharing annotated books with the people they love. The annotating books hashtag on TikTok has earned more than 75 million views. Friends have made joy-inducing videos like this one from emmabjork.eb about gifting annotated books to friends and loved ones. It’s easy to highlight and annotate books with Fable, and you can share those notes with one other person or your entire book club!
What is annotating?
Annotating books is the process of adding your own thoughts, feelings, and research to a book or ebook. In a print book, people use pens, colored pencils, highlighters, sticky notes, colored tape, and other tools to mark important passages and sections in a book.Start by downloading the free Fable app.
Fable is a social reading platform for book clubs, specially designed for sharing books with friends. With books on Fable, you can add photos, videos, podcasts, and other links to make your annotations truly special. You’ll have a record of all your favorite passages, personalized with links you explored while reading.How do you annotate an ebook on Fable?
Whether you are reading the book with thousands of friends or a single person, our tools make it easy to annotate any text with notes, highlights, photographs, music, videos, or other special links. Once you download the Fable app, follow these simple steps to annotate a book for a friend or loved one…1. Create a Fable book club and add your favorite book.
- Click the “Book Clubs” icon at the bottom of the Homescreen
- Press “Create New Club”
- Choose a name and description for your Book Club
- Invite your friend or loved one to join your club
- Don’t tap the “make club public” switch, keeping the club private
2. Annotate your favorite sections
You can highlight your favorite passages, and bring the book to life with links to videos and websites, or make a music playlist and share the link at the perfect moment in the book!- Tap and hold the first word of your favorite passage
- Drag your finger to highlight the complete passage
- Resize the highlight by moving the blue pins
- Tap your completed highlight
- Press the “Add Comment” button to share your thoughts about the passage
- Share a link to a related article, image, podcast, video, or other content inside your comment
3. Make it personal with photographs and messages
- Press the “Add Comment” button to share your thoughts about the passage
- Tap the photo icon to upload your favorite photographs
- Add special memories to personalize the annotations
4. Invite your friend or loved one to join your club
- Click the wheel icon in the upper right-hand corner to access the “Invite Readers” screen
- Share the invite through email, text messages, Slack, WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook, and other social media tools
- Copy the invite link to your clipboard and share it wherever you like--a completely private book-sharing experience with only two readers!
Why do people annotate books they read?
Highlights and annotations help you remember books better and quickly find your place inside text. When you share an annotated book with a friend, lover, or partner, you forge a new connection between two people. You explore this story world together, discovering new characters, places, and ideas. In this BookTube video from books with chole, you can learn more about annotating a print book.Is it good to annotate books?
Yes! The act of reading together with another person is called social reading. There are many benefits of social reading, including:- Enhance your language skills
- Supercharge your critical thinking abilities
- Boost your values of tolerance, inclusion, and respect
- Magnify your intelligence and empathy
- Increase your feelings of fun and engagement