I have mixed feelings... "What a crime!" and at the same time... I feel a little bit gossipy "let me see what this person wrote about this hihihi". I just think sometimes os personal and I feel like I am invading a personal space. 😂
I was raised never to write in books. Except for textbooks that I owned. My mother had one exception. She would put her initials on the upper right hand corner of the flyleaf of any book she read. I still have one of those books and I cherish those little initials. I wish she had written more.
Whoever creates BlueSky software, please change the way you look at photos etc. that BlueSky socialites post since right now if a shot of a letter etc. such as the 1 above is too small to read you need to open it in a new tab in order enlarge it, so it's easier to read, without a magnifying glass!
I always felt that one of the greatest moments of writing in a thriller was when Hannibal Lecter sent Jack Crawford a stanza from a John Donne poem as a conciliatory note concerning the death of his wife.
I just got a copy of The Story of the Eye (somehow misplaced mine, and wanted the same edition) and it was full of tiny, neat annotations in Japanese which was delightful
There’s a book called “S.” by Doug Dorst and J.J. Abrams, which is a whole story told in the margins of another story. Sounds like you might really dig it!
house of leaves is my favourite book, favourite author is tougher - i’ve gotta go with stephen king, though toni morrison and margaret atwood are way up there
The treasures that I have discovered buying second hand books is priceless. -Grocery lists/ reminder lists,
- Forever stamps that looked at least a decade old.
- The literal receipt to the book that donated ( I tag those as airport books)
- And of course the annotated ones are so much fun!
It’s fair not to want it if course, it should definitely be labeled ‘quality: poor’, but it’s still not vandalized. Overdramatic. If it were a library book, sure, but people are free to connect with their own books as much as they can, it’s not an infraction, crime, or hooliganery of any sort.
Books should be kept as pristine as possible outside of wear and tear from use. I’ll brook no argument from literature abusers such as yourself. I’ll hope you keep your fringe ideologies to yourself, sicko.
Another interesting thing to find is the sales receipt from the purchase of the book. Finding a book store I can visit if I am ever in the city the book was bought, or a reminder of a book store chain that used to exist (Media Play, B Dalton, WaldenBooks, Borders, Little Professor).
Have you read “S.” by Doug Dorst and J J Abrams? It’s basically that experience but with two stories connecting over the notations. Conceptually pretty interesting and a (very) light “House of Leaves” vibe.
unfortunately, i sometimes borrow library books where this has been done and the book was bought new by the library and some patron thinks it is okay to deface the book with comments.
For sure! I once saw a copy of the Aeneid on display in a museum. It was eleventy billion years old, had been hand copied by monks on a book the size of a case of canned beer, and had TWO sets of annotations in the margins, one in black ink, and the other in lovely green ink, about 80 years apart.
understanding how people become evil and what thought processes drive it is something i consider to be one of the most important endeavours in the world
If it was me I would go dig into all of musks upbringing, tweets and the responses he will have read and liked and rate them on various axis of evil type and severity, see if they change over time and you can correlate some form of pattern and cause and affect? Less morbid than handling toxic paper?
Grudgingly understand, although I don’t think you need to dig into old nazi stuff for that when there is exactly what you are looking for happening right now and there are plenty of tweets and other posts to mine for data.
….Versus knowing how it works today since that is the problem that needs to be solved. I’m sure you could white board the reasons people are pissed off and get all of them listed. (Base level of Maslows hierarchy related no doubt?). The question is how do you stop it this time in the world of sm
I’m not anti science or understanding facts and history so I get what you are saying. And I can see useful public messaging by comparing past and present in a scientific manner and understanding how messages get absorbed. I guess my main assumption was around the actual value of knowing this - next
Ohh, yes I have old poetry books with the same kinds of notations. One book I have there are two different people jotting notes, so the book has been around a bit.
Finding the pressed flower, a yellowing picture of a beloved one, a pattern for a gown and even the aged smell of the pages all leave me in awe of being present with a previous owner possibly at a time before I was born.
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The word feels delightful.
- Forever stamps that looked at least a decade old.
- The literal receipt to the book that donated ( I tag those as airport books)
- And of course the annotated ones are so much fun!
history and historical documentation is an incredibly important thing to familiarise oneself with and protect for the knowledge of future society