[ SECRET POST #6847 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6847 ⌋

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[Reading Rainbow (the reboot) with Mychal Threets]



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[Devil May Cry anime]



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Comments

Writing in books

[(Anonymous)]

How do you feel about writing/highlighting/marking in books?

Re: Writing in books

[(Anonymous)]

It's definitely annoying when I get the books second-hand! It can be a necessary evil in textbooks, though. (Sometimes I wonder if there's archivally safe translucent sticky notes in case I want to annotate something but leave the book clean for future readers.)

Re: Writing in books

[(Anonymous)]

I love doing it in textbooks and would have flunked out if I hadn’t done it. But it is unacceptable in any other kind of book. I really shouldn’t care because technically it doesn’t matter and in NF it’s as beneficial as doing it in textbooks, but for some reason I am OTT ragey about it.

Re: Writing in books

[(Anonymous)]

If it's your own copy, then I don't care. Marking up library copies is an asshole move, though. I'm also not pleased when I buy a secondhand book and don't realize someone's marked it up.

Re: Writing in books

[philstar22]

I don't think there is technically anything wrong with doing it to your own books. It just feels wrong to me personally, though, and I'd never do it.

Re: Writing in books

[(Anonymous)]

I don’t like it.

Re: Writing in books

[iff_and_xor]

I used to really like reading books that had other people's notes in the margins. I could ignore them if I wanted, but they were often fun to read. Highlighting and underlining would bug me because that interferes more when I'm trying to focus on the text.

As for myself, I would sometimes make margin notes (often just ! or ? or *, sometimes a few words) but only in pencil and of course only in my own books. I think I did once donate some of those and I had to go back through it with an eraser first.

Re: Writing in books

[(Anonymous)]

I can't bring myself to do it to my own, but I don't care what other people do in theirs. If you like writing notes in your books, go for it! I just wouldn't let anyone do it to my own copies and I'd be pissed if they did.

Re: Writing in books

[(Anonymous)]

Textbooks are necessary, imo. Marking them up helped me study.

I’ve marked up a few (as in, fewer than five) books that were not textbooks. However, they are mental health books I got to help myself with my journey to mental wellness. Since they are my books, and they are reference books I still use, idc what anyone thinks.

Yes, I had a therapist. Yes, I worked hard at my therapy. The American health system deemed that I could have one year of therapy for postpartum depression and my therapist spent the final three months we had recommending books, workbooks, and giving me a path to continue therapy on my own, so. I did, and I marked up mu books.

However, if anyone marked up anything else in my library, I would commit mayhem upon them.

Re: Writing in books

[(Anonymous)]

In a cathedral library in the UK I was shown a book that had a note written on the back flyleaf - "Today I heard that Constantinople has fallen," or words to that effect.

That's the kind of writing in books that I can appreciate.

Re: Writing in books

[randomdrops]

If you are never going to resell or give them away and they are your own copies, mark away! I personally don't write in books. If I have notes to make or find passages I want to remember then I write it down in a little notebook. I tend to only do this with a certain type of nonfiction and will read while making notes.

It bugs me so much to get a book with previous readers notes in them, only because it makes it really difficult for me to concentrate on the actual text. It's like trying to read with people talking to me. Idk if it is an ADHD or a dyslexia thing or what, but it's annoying.

I had a friend once that loved to annotate books and gift them to people. And we had a few friends that loved that type of thing, but to me that is just not it.

Re: Writing in books

[(Anonymous)]

I personally don't do it because I grew up poor so I owned very few books and borrowed most of the books I read from libraries. I still feel like I should try to damage books I buy as little as possible.

However, I don't mind writings in books I got secondhand. It reminds me that books have a history of their own. I like to wonder what the previous book owner was doing with the book (in school doing homework? doing research for work/a hobby?)