GCSE English
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GCSE English Literature Quote Bank
A GCSE English literature quote bank: short lines from the set text you study, grouped by theme, so you can test yourself.
Guides
Guides for saving quotes from paper books
Practical notes for readers who underline paper books, keep margin notes, and want to find those lines again.
Book quote capture
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How to Save Quotes from Physical Books
A practical workflow for moving a marked passage from a paper book into a corrected, searchable personal library.
Page scanning
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How to Scan Underlined Book Pages
How to frame, capture, review, and correct an underlined page when you want searchable reading notes.
Annotation
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How to Make a Book Annotation Key
A short legend of symbols, colours and tab colours for fiction, study and non-fiction, written down so the marks still mean something next month.
Annotation
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How to Annotate a Book Without Writing in It
Sticky notes, coloured tabs, a bookmark, pencil if you are allowed, a notebook, and a photo of the page before a borrowed book goes back.
Reading workflow
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Digitise Book Notes Without Losing Context
A simple system for preserving the passage, book, page and personal note when moving from paper to a searchable library.
Reading practice
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What Is a Digital Commonplace Book?
What a commonplace book is, how it differs from a reading journal, and a simple way to keep passages from paper books.
iPhone reading tools
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The Best Way to Organise Book Quotes on iPhone
A practical comparison of camera rolls, general notes, and a dedicated personal quote library for readers who want to find passages again.
Privacy and trust
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Privacy-First Book Notes on iPhone
What to check when you want searchable reading notes without casually exposing your personal reading history.
Book quote search
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How to Find a Quote in a Book, and the Page Number
How to find a quote in a book, and the page number of that quote: Google Books, Gutenberg, the Internet Archive, an ebook, or your copy.
Quote capture
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Capture and Search Paper Book Quotes
Photograph underlines, brackets and margin notes, then keep an accurate, searchable library of those passages on iPhone and iPad.
Search workflow
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How to Search Quotes from Paper Books
A practical way to index physical book highlights and margin notes so you can search them by keyword, author or theme.
Reading comparison
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Book Quotes vs Kindle Highlights
How paper-book capture compares with Kindle highlights, and what BookQuotes does and does not take from an e-reader.
Export workflows
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Export Book Quotes to Obsidian and Notion
What the Markdown, plain text, JSON, Notion and Obsidian exports actually contain, and how to move those files into a vault.
The principle behind the guides
The point is not to collect every sentence. It is to keep the passages that matter, preserve their context, and make them available when your future self needs them.