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Originally Posted by Glice
I find nothing more irritating than people who've used a book to study and have underlined sections in pen, as with my recently acquired second-hand copy of Kierkegaards 'concluding unscientific postscript' which is very good. Thanks for your query.
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To echo the sentiments of several of you, I like when people make notations in texts - it somehow personalizes them.
While I can appreciate the value of a book as a collector's item, to me, books are tools, meant to be handled and used. If I buy a book secondhand, I correlate the owner's love of the book with the severity of the book's wear. As long as it's still legible, I don't care.
Noumenal, just because I'm a geek, doesn't mean I'm a fastidious geek
