inscriptions in second-hand books

[Kristie]

yay! i could tell what you said!! partially because i know what they said and partially because of german and partially because the words almost look the same as the english but yeah. the funny thing is from just reading the disclaimer, if you had no prior knowledge, it doesn't sound too baduntil they start talking about white supremacy. but i thought. why can people be so stupid?! they shouldn't be allowed to be that stupid!

[Bina]

I know stupidity is really dangerous and people who seek power.
Yeah, the origin of English is quite interesting, I´m studying that for my medieval class. And knowing English, German, French and Dutch so comes in handy. I think I´ll take a French course next semester, I forgot so many words since school.

[gilmoregirls021]

I like reading the notes and stuff that they write in the book as they go long, to see what that person thoguht when they were reading the book.

[bookworm148]

I've never gotten any inscriptions or anything. I have gotten a few bookmarks though.

[Kristie]

Nick bought me a two volume copy of Les Miserables and inside each cover there is a return address sticker for what was probably the previous owner (don't know if someone else had it between me and the man). I also bought Binding Chair from a used book store and inside was a return address sticker for the previous owner. She'd also written her name and the month/year and who she got it from. So I put my own return address sticker right under hers so if I sell it to a second hand bookstore the next person knows two people owned it I'm weird like that.

Do you like it if people have the book before you and write stuff in the margins?

[Bina]

I guess it would depend on what they´d write. If someone was really moved by a text passage and writes about it in the margins, that´s great. But I have an edition of lady chatterley that had notes like "i hate this book" "school sucks" etc. in them. It was in pencil so I erased it but I wasn´t that impressed

[Kristie]

haha, nothing really profound written in any of my books. But I don't tend to buy used books, so that's probably why.

[sagedautumn]

Yea, i tend to get distracted from the side notes

[Hanna]

It's like Dorothy said, it depends on what's written! I seldom write in books though, only those we have for school, and my Bible...

[dreamer112]

holliday said:

When I was little I found a note made in a book to my dad's first wife from whoever gave it to her. I didn't know my dad was married before....

Same thing happened to me, only it was with a deck of cards.

I love it when you get used books and there are LONG notes inside the front cover. It lets you look into that persons life a little.

[pattinka]

mostly I can find some telehone numbers...but once I found a love letter...well a copy ...it was soooo sweet....a guy was writting to his girl who was far far away...

[Michelle]

I don't think I get enough second-hand books so I've never found anything cool. But I'm notorious for leaving things in books. My husband finds notes, lists, schedules, money, etc in my books all the time. If I ever sold them, people would find all kinds of things.

[Kristie]

Yeah, I leave random slips of paper in my books. Especially if they're library books. Then they're still in there when I give them back O well, obviously it's nothing important or I wouldn't put it in there in the first place.

[Bina]

When I return the books to the library the librarian always shakes them to see if I forgot anything in them. It´s embarassing how much falls out. I guess that happens when we carry them with us everywhere

[Kristie]

When I get books sometimes there's still stuff in them. They probably only flip through them and shake them, but sometimes papers are stuck nicely in there. But we turn them in through a drop-box, so we don't see them check them in and therefore you can't really get anything you left in there when you turned it in. So be careful what you leave in there...