/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.23228454]

>buy used book
>see this

[Anonymous No.23228469]

>get rare book I've been seeking for years
>one page has a corner fold
Immediately the value is 90% less

[Anonymous No.23228477]

>Book is signed by the former owner
Ifd you do this, don't sell it to some thrift store later. Throw it in the garbage once you are done with it.

[Anonymous No.23228479]

At least it is not ruined by pens and yellow markers for some pretentious tictoc bullshit.

[Anonymous No.23228484]

>buy used book
>20+ dog-eared pages
>random stuff highlighted
>notes written in disgusting female handwriting
Think I’m going to spend the extra few quid and buy new from now on. Or at least only purchase used books rated as having very good quality.

[Anonymous No.23228500]

I buy books with notes, highlighter, dog ears
I buy books with broken spines, heavily foxed pages, missing dust covers.
I do not care, so long as the text is all there, that's all that matters.
Books are meant to be read. Collecting books without reading them is no better than collecting funko pops

[Anonymous No.23228505]

>>23228454
>buy used book
>book is used
>mfw

[Anonymous No.23228534]

>>23228479
>At least it is not ruined by pens and yellow markers for some pretentious tictoc bullshit.
don't use tiktok, qrd?

[Anonymous No.23228550]

>>23228500
This

I remember one edition of Rousseau’s works a friend bought that was filled with handwritten notes from the previous owner.
The notes were all complaints about the notes made by the translator. Previous owner accusing the translator of not understanding Rousseau.

[Anonymous No.23228556]

>>23228454
I flatten it, vigorously.

[Anonymous No.23228561]

>>23228454
>buy used book
>100 pages into the book there are notes from a previous owner trying to analyze an 17th century writer through the lens of freud

[Anonymous No.23228565]

>>23228454
learning to accept dog-ears in books is unironically one of the steps to living a happier, calmer life.

[Anonymous No.23228578]

>>23228477
>>23228484
You're pseuds. finding little reminders that other people exist and have their own lives is a joyful feeling. I keep all the little things too. One time I found a picture of a cat that had been used as a bookmark. I have some pictures of a bunch of old guys having a get-together at a pub I found on the ground. I have the birth certificate of a complete stranger I found in an old drawer somewhere. I hoard these little things, and look at them from time to time.

also this:>>23228500

[Anonymous No.23228580]

>>23228454
Realising that books are just sheets of paper glued together and not some sacred totem is one of the greatest epitomes of the reader's life. I highly recommend just throwing out a book you don't like instead of anally insisting on passing it on to another poor sap.

[Anonymous No.23228613]

>>23228469
>gets rare book so he can resell it
LMAO, pseud.

[Anonymous No.23228622]

>>23228500
What do you do with your books after reading them? Because at that point you are just collecting them without reading them.
>BUT I READ THEM ONCE
Yes, but after that point it just sits on your shelf never to be opened again. I am asking you to make your position logically consistent, or to concede that you're a poseur faggot. Which will it be?

[Anonymous No.23228647]

>>23228622
>keeping something you've used out of sentimentality is the same as buying stupid, mass produced "collectables" with no use
dumbass

[Anonymous No.23228655]

>>23228647
Thank you for conceding.

[Anonymous No.23228682]

the most retarded thread of all time, all of you need help

[Anonymouṡ No.23228692]

>>23228454
People often talk about forging old works. e.g. If you're good at Greek (and lyric poetry), fake up some Sappho fragments, etc. But has anyone considered (or tried) getting an old book and then forging notes in it to suggest it was the personal copy of someone famous?

We know what books famous people read. Some of them wouldn't have written in their books (I bet Jane Austen didn't) but others (DFW) certainly did and lots of others (Byron) PROBABLY did.

So:—

1. Pick famous writer, e.g. Nabakov.
2. Pick book he would have annotated, e.g. Mansfield Park (he taught it).
3. Write in it the sort of notes he would have written in it.
4. Write “To Vladimir, Happy 43rd birthday, love from Véra. Hope this comes in useful next term!” on the flyleaf.
5. Stick it on eBay.
6. Profit!

[Anonymous No.23228793]

>buy used copy of Infinite Jest
>thousands of highlighted passages annotated with handwritten post numbers

[Anonymous No.23228796]

>>23228692
Both of these scenarios wouldn't work for multiple obvious reasons. This is the type of shit that would only work in a tourist trap, and the only reason it works is because you'll stop being such an annoying pushy faggot if I just give you the money to shut up.

[Anonymous No.23228821]

>>23228454
better than this, which my family has a terrifying habit for

[Anonymous No.23228835]

>buy used book
>every couple of sentences are underlined
>stupid little notes like "main theme" and "wow!" in the margin
>15 pages in, it all just stops

:)

[Anonymous No.23228850]

>>23228484
Don't buy used online, easy as.
Thrift shops
Used book stores

[Anonymous No.23228877]

>>23228821
Explain how this is any different than holding the book open.

[Anonymous No.23228884]

>>23228580
Honestly this.
You just have to realize at one point that a book is just an industrially produced glued and printed papers. It holds nothing of the "essence" of the work itself.

[Anonymous No.23228888]

>>23228454
>Buy used book
>On the first page there's a dedication to a girl
>Close the book and never open it again

[Anonymous No.23228895]

>>23228500
A library is a resource. My books are there so that I might read them whenever I feel like it, which might be in a day or in a decade. Feeling otherwise, which is to say feeling you have an moral obligation to immediately consoom your possesion because doing otherwise is "unproductive" or "a waste" is peak ameritard nonsense and it should land you straight in a mental asylum.

[Anonymous No.23228909]

>>23228877
because you're leaving it like that, on one page, for potentially days
it disends the spine and damages any paperback much more than simple reading would do

[Anonymous No.23228932]

>>23228622

Lend them out to friends?

[Anonymous No.23228966]

>>23228578
I'm not a collector, but I've bought plenty of used books that were in good condition, and I'm appreciative of the former owners of such books. A decent edition of a book can be reutilized by different people for several decades, saving resources and money. Treating the book well and avoiding things like dog ears or copious written notes makes reading more inviting to the following owners.

Imagine a several decades old hardcover edition of an in-demand classic book that has been passed on to a stranger several times and is now in the hands of a young student for whom spending $6 instead of $40 in one single book is quite the difference.

[Anonymous No.23229142]

>buy new book
>write a dedication to myself inside the front cover
>sneeze on and dogear every page
>leave it sitting on the windowsill so it gets permanently warped by condensation
>donate to used book store

[Anonymous No.23229158]

>buy philosophy book
>rip out a single key page that makes the philosophy all click together
>leave a note in the book telling the reader where they can find the missing page
>the location is only revealed through a deep understanding of the philosophy

[Anonymous No.23229195]

>>23228895
>can't imagine other people thinking outside of relations of productivity and consumption
>literally owns a 'library' full of unread books as potential pseudointellectual masturbation
>calls other people ameritards
wowza!

[Anonymous No.23229375]

>>23228578
>sneak dick pic in book before donating it

[Anonymous No.23229461]

>>23229142
Thank you for your service.

[Anonymous No.23229488]

>>23228534
TikTok is heavily oriented on visuals. To make book content stand out, some creators choose to annotate them.

[Anonymous No.23229548]

>>23229195
was this post supposed to display your complete lack of reading comprehension or are you just pretending to be retarded?

[Anonymous No.23229557]

>>23228454
kwab

[Anonymous No.23229562]

>>23229488
Women are fascinating. This gave me my first ever moment of empathy and understanding of women. I think I see what they see now. When they see my apartment's blank white walls they think "But what iiiiif~ what iiiiiiiiiif~ there were hanging viiiines~ and little butterflies :3!! I loOOOVE butterfliessss~ ^__^" automatically and have no choice in the matter

And when they see my mismatched and merely functional furniture and so forth, they see the disharmony of shapes and colors and it's basically like I just held their face by my ass and farted

I kind of get it now, if they're FORCED to see and desire things like this, then I am basically committing an act of violence against them by being a bad decorator. I'm going to start being nicer to women, I'm going to ask some women today what they see when they look at a dumb blue house or something. I guess they're just watching movies all day in their head and trying to turn drab things into nice things that would be in a beautiful movie scene version of the thing? Have I been pummeling women illicitly for years for being instinctive decorators?

[Anonymous No.23229600]

>>23228647
Never give up a book if you don't have to. The knowledge or story within may be of use in the future. Books are a repository of knowledge and culture and should be treated as the sacred vessels that they are in that respect.

[Anonymous No.23229687]

>>23229562
good morning

[Anonymous No.23229716]

>>23229600
Exactly. And not just that- keeping a book that you've read is like keeping a hunting trophy. There's no shame in looking at everything you've read, all lined up, and being proud.

[Anonymous No.23229724]

>>23229488
Holy shit, I hate women so goddamn much. Also that writing is atrocious
>rooted me through the floor
Most people would say rooted to, not rooted through.
>lashes splay across his cheeks
This implies he has long lashes. Men don't have long lashes. In fact women don't either. Women artificially lengthen their lashes, which implies this guy is wearing fake women's lashes, implying he's a faggot.

[Anonymous No.23229752]

>>23228877
You're HOLDING YOUR BOOKS OPEN?!?! That ruins them!

[Anonymous No.23229764]

>>23229724
>Men don't have long lashes
t. lashlet

>>23229752
this. whenever i buy a physical book, i try to touch it as little as possible and just display it on my shelf. when i want to read a book, i download it and read it on my phone.

[Anonymous No.23229777]

>>23228500
I KNEEL!

[Anonymous No.23229781]

>>23228454
I rub my dick on all the books I sell. Eardogged pages and notes in ink should be the least of you worries.

[Anonymous No.23230184]

>>23229488
women have such shit taste in books, holy shit

[Anonymous No.23230298]

>>23228578
Based. I too appreciate this shit, I've found letters, shopping lists, photos, pressed flowers in a bible and in most of the books notes and marginalia. I add my own notes in and I'm sure one day many years from now someone else will too.

[Anonymous No.23230321]

>>23229488
Those are inhumanly long lashes.

[Anonymous No.23230566]

>>23228835
kek

[Anonymous No.23230621]

>>23228454
Yeah, just bend it the other way and it'll be made right. Not a big deal.
>what about highlights / underlines?
Just ignore them.
>what about notes in the margins?
If they're vapid / uninteresting, then ignore them; if they're funny / engaging, then they make the book better (sort of like a MST3K experience but in print form).

[Anonymous No.23230654]

>>23228454
Once you read past that point you get to gloat. You beat the previous owner.
>>23228580
Have people who complain about shit like OP ever been to goodwill? Books are monetarily valueless, they are garbage to 99% of the population. The books you own and love will end up at goodwill for 50 cents each regardless of how nicely you treat them. Read, enjoy and pay it forward, that's how it works.

[Anonymous No.23230656]

>>23228578
Based.
I once found a polaroid of a young couple. I like to think they might still be together.

[Anonymous No.23230855]

>>23229375
>>23229781
Hahahahahahahahahahaha

[Anonymous No.23231222]

>>23228454
The first thing I do whenever I buy books is crack the spine. I open it to 3 or 4 spots and bend the hell out it of back and forth over and over to loosen her up a bit. Then I write my name in it and dog ear a page. I also slam the corners of the book into my desk to get them nice and dented.
I used to be neurotic about keeping my books perfect. I used to feel the pain of accidentally crinkling a page on an otherwise perfect book. I would even worry about reading outside because I live in a humid place and the pages would ripple and warp in the wetness. Now I am in control. You have to establish dominance over your things or they will dominate you. Ultimately a book is maybe a couple bucks worth of ink and paper and glue. You own it. Do not let it own you.

[Anonymous No.23231361]

>>23228578
The used copy of Toynee's A Study of History I bought has a handwritten note on the inside saying "Nietzsche was to Wagner what Toynbee was to History. May you be so lucky as he in your hope to make it live". I was given to somebody for their 22nd birthday in 1977. I like having that little piece of someone's personal memory with me.

[Anonymous No.23231975]

>>23229488
What disease causes this?

[Anonymous No.23232223]

>sex scene

[Anonymous No.23232352]

>>23231975
two x chromosomes

[Anonymous No.23232357]

>>23231222
>The first thing I do whenever I buy books is crack the spine.
this is exactly what i do as well, but with my women

[Anonymous No.23232369]

>>23228477
>>23228578
I always hate it when I find a book in the store that has a written dedication in it, like it was a gift from a loved one
always makes me wonder what happened to make the owner not care about the book or the person that gave it to them
puts me in a bad headspace

[Anonymous No.23232394]

>>23232369
>always makes me wonder what happened to make the owner not care about the book or the person that gave it to them
don't worry the owner probably just died young and the indifferent family got rid of the books without even looking

[Anonymous No.23232411]

>>23231975
Lack of self-esteem and boredoom.

[Anonymous No.23232433]

>>23232394
>the indifferent family got rid of the books without even looking
seeing people's life-long passions and collections of things be sold unceremoniously in flea markets has made be very choosy about about I collect and made me borderline anti-consumerist
There's a half price books in my city that borders an old-money neighborhood so it's a goldmine of finding cheap Easton Press and Franklin Library books that were obviously dumped there by uncaring family when the owner died

[Anonymous No.23232548]

/// He gets astonishing levels of media attention and that is a cross the young player has to bear /// His avuncular image belies his steely determination /// After a sudden burst of activity, the team lapsed back into indolence /// Such controversies have waxed and waned but continue to this day /// International support has given rise to a new optimism in the company /// Further analysis showed the absence of pathogenic bacteria /// The septuagenarian brothers are still heavily involved in the running of the business and they have no desire to relinquish control /// Later on, she would prevail on somebody else to chauffeur her home /// Was the newspaper report bylined or was it anonymous? /// His tailored suit had subtle inset patterns on the lapels /// This specialized knowledge is beyond the ken of most patients so that they must rely on others to fill in the gap /// He writes as an elegist for a lost England /// The stocks run the gamut from defensive staples to bets on emerging markets /// Those examples test the application of the fair use doctrine in copyright law, which allows creators to play with existing copyrights /// The latest evidence puts an entirely different slant on the case /// He is acknowledged within the music world, and is highly esteemed by the genre's marquee names /// The home team saw off the challengers by 68 points to 47 /// They went for a quick snog behind the bike sheds /// Numerous fabulists invented stories about enemies of the state /// Shame on them and shame of the student who actually believe the tripe being peddled /// Next time you pull a stunt like that don’t expect me to get you out of trouble /// The old women crooned their mystic tuneless dirges /// He answered openly and honestly without hesitation or equivocation /// After that five-mile run I was completely wiped out ///

[Anonymous No.23232590]

>>23232369
it makes me sad too, but i can imagine several people i know who would also give those books again. most people aren't that sentimental, i guess.

[Anonymous No.23232738]

>>23232369
>>23232590
I guess the best we can hope for is that the books were given away after the person died, but that's sad too... these are the kind of things we have to learn to live with, but if we cherish the book too, then the feelings of the person who wrote the note lives on just a little bit longer.

[Anonymous No.23233624]

>>23232369
That's the appeal to me. Every little dedication has a whole story behind it. I like trying to piece it together and imagine how the book ended up where I found it

[Anonymous No.23233730]

>German
I'd be disgusted too

[Anonymous No.23234477]

>>23228793
>buy used copy of Infinite Jest
>Every word too difficult for a fifth grader to immediately understand is underlined
>Underlined words stop showing up after page 30
heehee

[Anonymous No.23234815]

>>23229562
Your prose is inspiring

[Anonymous No.23234852]

do most anons not buy used books?
i buy all of my books used on either ebay or at local stores and they cost like $4-9 depending on how mass market they are
not to mention, on ebay i can find older prints with different, more interesting covers
i keep all my read books on a shelf that i might revisit and re-read a passage from if it pops into my mind one day
>saw a reference to "Borges and I" on here so i went and read it.
>remembered the epilogue to mishima's sun & steel so i went and read it.
is this not what most people do?

[Anonymous No.23235024]

>>23234852
In my city, the rotary club has a used book sale where they take over the whole walkway of an entire mall with the books for sale. And it's 3 for $5 for paperbacks and all the books are from donations. I've found pretty much every book I've wanted, classics, philosophy, history, psychology, even more contemporary stuff like Infinite Jest. Stuff is usually in pretty good condition, I've got literally like 99% of my books in that bi-yearly sale.

[Anonymous No.23235084]

>>23228454
It's time to upgrade, grandpa

[Anonymous No.23235160]

Recently picked up an old copy of Joyce’s Portrait with some great liner notes from someone studying the book pretty intently. Quite kino
>>23228500
This
>>23228622
>What do you do after you’ve read them?
Give them away to friends because I’m not a virtue signaling faggot

[Anonymous No.23235228]

>>23228454
>Had to put it down to watch tele

[Anonymous No.23235234]

>>23228500
>Collecting books without reading them is no better than collecting funko pops

Prices for the foreseeable future are not going to go down in the secondary market. They are tools and should be treated as such. You never regret shelling out for a quality tool that sees occasional use. If the desire & intent to read something in the future takes you and the price is right, there's no harm in jumping on it.

[Anonymous No.23235354]

>>23229488
I remember doodling like this when I was 6

[Anonymous No.23235382]

>buy used book
>see cum stain

[Anonymous No.23235385]

>buy used book
>get bedbugs

[Anonymous No.23235391]

worst is when the book belonged to someone who smoked, you can never get that stink out

[Anonymous No.23235413]

>>23235385
I quarantine used books in plastic bags and since most of them come from commercial sellers, they stood on a shelve for months before I get them anyway, so the risk of them having bed bugs is pretty low.

[Anonymous No.23235430]

>>23235413
quarantine won't help if it's not for at least a year. best bet is bagging and tossing your books in the freezer for a couple weeks. I agree the chance of getting them is low but damn you really don't wanna mess around with those little niggers.

[Anonymous No.23235444]

>>23228454
I abuse and vandalize my books all the time. It's about making it yours.

[Anonymous No.23235573]

I would never do that to my book

[Anonymous No.23235593]

>>23235573
I'll book-old you.

[Anonymous No.23235594]

>>23228477
Haha… I chuckled, anon. Did you hear it? Were you… listening, anon? Well, listen up: you are braindead.

[Anonymous No.23235631]

>>23232357
kek

[Anonymous No.23237328]

>>23235385
didn't even think about that honestly
how do you even avoid this?

[Anonymous No.23238105]

>>23235160
On my first day of university, I went into the campus library's Joyce section just to see what they had. He's my favorite author, so seeing the range of scholarship they had on him really made me happy, and gave me good supplementary materials for my next read-through of Ulysses. When I opened some of these books to decide which ones to check out, most of them were full of little scrawlings like this.

It actually made me cry. I didn't think anyone else cared about that stuff like I did.

[Anonymous No.23238119]

>>23228477
call me autistic but I like to imagine little stories in my head of the previous owners and what they are doing now. I always make up a happy ending.

[Anonymous No.23238169]

>>23231975
Being a monk in the middle ages

[Anonymous No.23238173]

>>23232223
fact: no story was ever made better by a sex scene. Cut the sex scene out of any story and at worst, nothing changes and at best it is improved.

[Anonymous No.23238231]

For me? It's continually using the 2018 Livenation ticket stub from a concert of my cousin's rock cover band.

That little thing has accompanied me through Don Quixote, Jung, 1/3rd of Plato's corpus and a fuckton of Gene Wolfe.

[Anonymous No.23238257]

Y'all need to stop being scared.

[Anonymous No.23238258]

>>23229195
>t.amerinigger

[Anonymous No.23238359]

>>23232369
In the /diy/ world, vintage and used tools are functional and a fraction of new price.
I have a garage full of tools inscribed with dead mens names.
I've bought unopened tools/sets with Christmas/anniversary/retirement writing on them.

I never cared as a young man. Now I think back to the number of auctions and estate sales I've attended and it horrifies me.
I have a hard time coping with the dedications in my book collection.

[Anonymous No.23238429]

>>23228484
>random stuff highlighted
I never understood this, specially in fiction.

[Anonymous No.23238441]

i love when a used book has signs that another human has read it before although i find weird stains to be gross but also endearing

[Anonymous No.23238468]

>>23228835
This is the best. I get a nice little feeling of satisfaction knowing I made it further in a book than someone else even if the book is shit.

[Anonymous No.23238522]

>>23228835
recently sold my uni textbook that looked similar to that, I gave up annotating after a few pages and decided to wing the exam. hope that it motivated whoever bought it to do better than me

[Anonymous No.23238553]

>buy used book off amazon about ayn rand
>shitstains

[Anonymous No.23238563]

>buy used text book on literary theory or social studies
>Marxist/feminist/racism related is the only thing highlighted
Every fucking time. It’s sad that entire fields are just used for woke citation.

[Anonymous No.23238767]

>>23238105
I hope you had a nice warm cup of cockroach milk after that.

[Anonymous No.23238769]

>>23228454
Peruse before buying.
Or even a casual glance.

[Anonymous No.23238776]

>>23235160
You have friends?
Do they consider you a friend?

[Anonymous No.23238779]

>>23228835
My ex does this. I did write notes too but not these nonsensical "lmao" "omg" "like me fr" bs that people corrupt their book pages with

[Anonymous No.23238794]

>>23229724
Speak for yourself lashless fag

[Anonymous No.23238796]

>>23229764
That is the dumbest thing I've ever seen

[Anonymous No.23238802]

>>23238522
My high school organic chem textbook is full of my senior's side notes, I added mine too, and I think now anyone who finishes the book can score an A because of how complete it was

[Anonymous No.23238805]

>>23229562
>"But what iiiiif~ what iiiiiiiiiif~ there were hanging viiiines~ and little butterflies :3!! I loOOOVE butterfliessss~ ^__^" automatically and have no choice in the matter
SOVL

[Anonymous No.23238987]

>>23237328
>toss book in bag
>freeze for 2 weeks (extreme overkill if your freezer is anywhere near 0 degrees but if you're already schizo enough to put books in the freezer might as well be safe)
>wait for book to come back up to room temp before opening to avoid condensation

[Anonymous No.23239024]

>>23228500
Everything but hughlighter. That shit ruins my day

[Anonymous No.23240062]

>>23232369
I don't really care if there is some dedication to someone in pen or something on the first blank page before the proper book; as long as the main body of text isn't annotated and the book is otherwise in good condition I don't care, though a tiny amount of highlighting is okay. I mainly use books as tools.

[Anonymous No.23240185]

>>23238359
>I never cared as a young man. Now I think back to the number of auctions and estate sales I've attended and it horrifies me.
this is exactly what I meant
going to a flea market or an estate sale and seeing someone's hobby or their vast collection of stuff, something they were obviously deeply interested in and likely took them decades to collect, just sitting on a table with a price tag added carelessly by their family that obviously doesn't recognize or care about the significance it once held
I'm on several book collector groups and there are weekly posts where someone is selling their parents' wall-sized collection of Easton Press books, a collection that would logistically take 30 years of care to curate, and the child doesn't give a fuck at all. utterly horrifying to me.

[Anonymous No.23240407]

>>23229562
Wtf I didn't know women were based.

[Anonymous No.23240413]

>>23231222
I kneel

[Anonymous No.23240435]

>>23232369
>>23238359
>>23240185
About five years ago now, I moved states for a few months for rehab to get sober. When I returned home, my parents picked me up from the airport and a minute into the drive informed me they had stopped paying the bill on our shared storage unit, which contained all of my possessions from personal effects to bedroom furniture, but most importantly 95% of my personal library, a few hundred books, some of which contained personal inscriptions like those.

[Anonymous No.23240571]

>>23228484
>>23228454
to be loved is to be changed :)

[Anonymous No.23240686]

>>23229724
>rooted me through the floor
It means he fucked Nora so hard they literally broke the floorboards

[Anonymous No.23240907]

>>23235084
Nah, that's no upgrade. And I don't mean to say I refuse to read/own digital books, it's just that it really isn't an upgrade. I know that, save for an unfortunate event like a fire or nuclear bombs (both of which which would destroy them all anyway), these books should last some good decades, why, they might just outlive me; some real gems out there have been around for centuries.
Can you say the same about ereaders, or any computer for that matter? The technologies we're so fond of nowadays might not survive the competency crisis, or the dozens of crises looming and bound to kick us in the ball in this decade and the next, or the next time our glorious sun accidentally sneezes some coronal mass our way.

[Anonymous No.23240919]

>>23240907
>balls
Fixed. And I forgot to add, HDDs/SSDs aren't exactly durable to begin with, compared to physical books.

[Anonymous No.23242458]

>>23228454
>Buy $30 Plato collection that is in "very good" condition
>When I get it, the first few dialogues are literally fucking covered with underlines and notes
>Like this dumb nigger was circling basic ideas and writing down braindead things like "Socrates didn't like the gods?" On the side of the paper
>All the notes suddenly stop like 4 dialogues in

Thank God that fucking mongrel was filtered and stopped defacing the book early but his shit ass notes, totally unworthy of even existing, really annoyed me to the poing of simply wanting to buy a entirely new copy to the book simple just to not look at his ape speak

[Anonymous No.23242794]

>>23242458
Kek. I always find it funny. If they really piss me off i just try to cover them

[Anonymous No.23242846]

>>23228454
This thread
> buy used book
> upset the book is used

This is the most 4chan thing I have seen all day.

[Anonymous No.23242848]

>>23238776
Yes and yes. You should try it, it’s quite nice

[Anonymous No.23242855]

>>23228821
Who cares about cheap paperbacks. As other anon said they are just mass production disposable garbage. I fold mine practically in half while reading. I don’t even know what a broken spine is, is that the creases in it? Just makes it easier to read again.

[Anonymous No.23243475]

>>23238231
I like to cut bookmarks out of old birthday or christmas cards. It's a nice way of reusing something I would otherwise just throw away.

[Anonymous No.23243483]

>>23228500
Same, notes are the best part since you can see what the people before you analyzed.

[Anonymous No.23244061]

>>23228821
Sometimes when a book's binding is too tight or I just get tired of holding it open I'll put it down like this and stand on it. Once you get it nice and flat it holds itself open.

[Anonymous No.23244092]

>>23228454
>aaaaah the steeply discounted used product I purchased rather than paying full price for a new one shows signs of previous use
>noooooo now all the words don’t mean what they’re supposed to mean :(

[Anonymous No.23244556]

>>23229488
Why is everything underlined?
What are those symbols at the end of every line?

[Anonymous No.23244617]

>>23238119
Based. I hope one day you'll imagine a happy ending for me

[Anonymous No.23244646]

I've always wanted to write in my books but I'd hate to piss the next owner by my scribbles so I just bought sticky notes to write on and stick them in

[Anonymous No.23244707]

>>23228622
You're retarded. I don't want to get a book so that I can have read it (yes this is grammatically incorrect; I don't care; I'm inventing a new compound tense so I can properly express what I mean here). I want to get a book so that I can have it. Most of the time so I can read it, but all the time so I can have it. Because if I have the book, I always have the ability to read it, but if I read it and then don't have it, I can never read it again until I have it again.
Are you telling me that you've never been sitting at your desk, saw a book on your shelf, been reminded of a passage. and wanted to pick it up and reread the passage?

[Anonymous No.23244938]

>>23228454
O' to be blessed with a local library, where ideas meet in hushed whispers; where the smells of patrons intermingle upon the pages. Where ink of fifty different pens dries, smears, and captures a thousand points of genius, to be lost as footnotes; tears in the rain. Where bent pages shout, "I could take no more, but I must continue!" before the glasses are removed and a pinch between the eyebrows centers the mind once again in reality.

[Anonymous No.23244961]

>>23228454
>don't care
Who gives a flying fuck so long as I can read the book. What do you expect getting a used copy?
I got a book that's a memoir of an American journalist stationed among Austro-Hungarian troops on the Eastern Front in WWI, and like every other page has notes scribbled down in Hungarian by the previous owner. I think it adds character; I would rather it than a mint condition version of the same book.

[Anonymous No.23244965]

>>23244707
I don't get how people don't understand this.

[Anonymous No.23244973]

>>23244965
It’s sour grapes. The replies to some anons who have a nice library or nice book sure are resentful

[Aspiring Investor No.23245135]

>Waaah, my used book isn't shrink wrapped and delivered to me directly from Jeff Bezo's bosom. I need it to be perfect, I can't have an old well read book. It smells funny. Oh no, a page I will read for 5 minutes tops has a crease in it.

/thread

[Anonymous No.23245154]

>>23238429
Yeah and it always seems like every fucking sentence is highlighted. Like they dont even seem to understand the poi t of highlighting and just highlight everything. The good thing is they never make it oast the first chapter.

[Anonymous No.23245175]

>>23238257
Sacrilegeous. Women are the ultimate swallowers of the slogan.

[Anonymous No.23245190]

>>23228578
pure kino

[Anonymous No.23245198]

>>23244556
>What are those symbols at the end of every line?
either hearts of flies

[Anonymous No.23245270]

I was reading a fairly new print of one of my books, a collection of Epictetus' lectures, and I came across a page that was all screwed up. They printed at least 3 pages on top of each other but it's the only real fault in the book as far as I can tell.
I took out a pencil and wrote
>LOL
over the top of the page, for it made me happy.

[Anonymous No.23245646]

>>23228622
>accusing someone of being a quote unquote "poseur faggot"
>unironically using phrases like "I am asking you to make your position logically consistent"
Every accusation is a confession; a tale as old as time.

[Anonymous No.23245657]

>buy a stack of second hand books
>print out a few copies of that one photo of Nikocado Avocado's blown-out asshole
>carefully place a photo inside each book
>donate them to a different second hand bookstore

[Anonymous No.23245679]

nothing wrong with doing that, stop being a faggot
>>23228479
yeah

[Anonymous No.23245682]

At a Goodwill, I found this strange little book. Hard cover, but falling apart. Its dust sleeve has long since disintigrated. Every other page is illustrated. It smells musty, like an old library. Written in a sharp pencil and with good care is the owner's name, her address, and the year she got it. The book itself was made in 1925, and she received it in 1937. I looked her up, and saw she had passed some time in the 1980s. She was born in 1880.
I wonder what her life was like.
I wonder if this book was something she purchased herself second hand, or if this was a gift she received.

[Anonymous No.23245686]

>>23228500
highlighters are annoying as hell, its the only no no for me, the book has to be too rare to be worth it

[Anonymous No.23245688]

>>23245682
do you have a picture of it? sounds cool

[Anonymous No.23245692]

>>23240435
That is horrifying anon. I'm glad you're clean but, my God thats terrible.

[Anonymous No.23245693]

>>23228578
notes can be annoying if the guy who wrote them is a retard like me

[Anonymous No.23245696]

>>23245688
I set it away, I need to find it. I must be careful, this book is falling apart.

[Anonymous No.23245699]

>>23240435
>they had stopped paying the bill on our shared storage unit, which contained all of my possessions from personal effects to bedroom furniture, but most importantly 95% of my personal library
I would be so mad I would probably have a stroke

[Anonymous No.23245715]

>>23245699
I'd be so mad I'd turn into an orphan

[Anonymous No.23246011]

>>23228454
ruined

[Anonymous No.23246912]

>>23238257
But for what purpose

[Anonymous No.23246933]

>>23228454
this is fine what really sucks is when you find a rare book for cheap and some midwit has written in the margins

[Anonymous No.23247253]

>>23229562
>turning scalding disdain for women into an almost paternal adoration
gusei hizamazukimasu, anon-sama

[Anonymous No.23247653]

I draw on the first two pages of a book. I might put an address in it or something. Then I give it to a second hand shop

[Anonymous No.23247709]

>>23246933
>need a light

[Anonymous No.23248041]

>>23228578
Based. I've found some interesting stuff in used book finds before. I found a taco recipe, an old exacto knife blade, and a printed page with someone's passport application. Dog ears in old books don't bother me, but I'll admit I can't stand seeing highlights or notes. Though I do enjoy if there is a name written on the first blank page.

[Anonymous No.23248050]

>>23238429
>>23245154
From what I've noticed when I've bought used books, a lot of times it's classics that the highlights and notes are in, and my guess is always that it was bought for some high school or college class that was then donated to Goodwill or something because they didn't care about the book at all. I don't usually see this stuff in books that wouldn't be used in a classroom setting. Then again, maybe this is also something people do in book clubs, but I don't typically buy books that are book club type books either, so I don't know.

[Anonymous No.23248586]

>>23228895
>>23229548
You pretty much just agreed with that Anon, so I'm not sure what you're ever trying to say. "Collecting" implies that you're never going to read them and will only let them gather dust on your shelf, so good for you that you do use your "resources" even if it's for far later.

[austin schumacher No.23248682]

wow it like /lit/ Faggot literally doesn ' t buy books or actually know how to read jej

[Anonymous No.23249769]

>book is signed by the author
>it's dedicated to someone with a different name than mine