/lit/ - Literature

>>11709380
I find reading other people's annotations interesting

>>11709380
If you don't like it, don't buy it. Don't you have a quick look-through of the book before you buy it?

>>11709407
Ordered online /:

>>11709380
Buy used books. They can contain sweet surprises.

>>11709404
SCUUUUUM GAAAAAANG

>>11709380
You'd think it would be common decency to mention this fact under item condition

>>11709440
piola.

>>11709440
Very nice.

ya theyre usually used for classes

I bought a used book and it had an eyelash in the crease and an annotation saying 'maria's eyelash' with an arrow pointing at it.

What the fuck is the point of highlighting half the fucking book?

>>11709720
>he doesn't highlight every other word to help with reading and understanding complex texts
Never gonna make it

>>11709440
cool

>>11709720
women

Ive never seen anything more than the odd word written in a used book. Why don't you just look through to check the condition first?

>>11709380
Don’t buy books

>reading in our time for american lit III
>girl comes in with a first edition "in our time" she got from the library
>doesn't realize what she has
>"keep cool anon, she'll turn it in by the end of week and you can filch it easy"
>another girl in the back of the class realizes what it is
>YOU NEED TO LET THE LIBRARY KNOW THAT'S A FIRST EDITION, IT'S WORTH A LOT OF MONEY

fug

>>11709720
Schools teach people to do that so publishers can sell more books.

>>11709440
What does it say?

>>11710843
I can't tell exactly but essentially it's a signed copy.

I bought a used text on Complex Analysis once from my university bookstore. The guy must have given up before even getting through the first chapter, which was on the literal arithmetic of imaginary numbers. There were a couple random notes that basically made no sense, or were laughably stupid, but the rest of the book was clean and untouched.

Fucking brainlets lmao

>>11709720
I have a female friend who does this. Every book she reads, she highlights pretty much every second sentence. Takes her weeks to even read the simplest of books.

>>11711074
MEeeeee

>>11709380
I bought over 500 books used through online book sellers and I have yet to come across such a disgrace. Maybe don't buy books for brainlet people?

define used

>>11709380
refund it moron

>>11711074

lol I saw something like that in a copy of Wittgensteins Über Gewissheit. Every other line of text was underlined or marked with a question mark, and comments such as "what does this mean" were on every page

Marginalia can be really interesting if the reader knows his shit. most of the time however its not.

>>11710843
"Is the reader's of this book in the Sacramento Library?"
Yeah, English isn't Lazlo's first language. He must of signed the book for the library as a gag to anyone who decided to check it out and read it. Between then, the book must have been given away by the library and found itself in the hands of some seller, whom I bought it from online.

>>11709380
>That hand

>>11709404
I usually don't mind but sometimes you end up with someone who is really annoying
>Underlined things for no reason, makes you waste time wondering what the hell they meant by this
>Give their shit opinions that ruin the effects of the sentence ("oh!" "that's too much!" etc)
>blatantly misunderstood what the author meant

>>11709380
Most online sellers will say if there are markings/highlighting/notes etc within the book they're selling. A lot of the time in my experience they will even go so far as to say how obtrusive the highlighting is. This seems to be a fairly common thing among many online sellers in my experience. So either you bought off a shoddy seller or you weren't diligent enough in your shopping.

I'd say 90% of the books I buy these days are used and I've never had an issue.

>>11709753
I honestly don’t think anyone else does this except for you.

>when the previous owner had his own custom Ex Libris bookstamp.
>when the book is an old library book with the checkout card still in the back.
>when the previous owner makes drawings in the margins of what is occurring in the book.

It's the little things.

Only buy used books. That way it looks like you've read them.

>>11709380
luzl, i search for these in the secondhand department of the local book store...

>main place I get my books is a little hidden 2nd hand Russian bookstore
>they get imported directly from Moscow
>dirt cheap because the owner is a legit guy and sells at the ruble price
>sometimes throws in a discount because I'm a regular
>got 14 books for about $70

A lot of second hand stuff was never used.

>>11709380
Are you the goblin hand guy?

>>11711885
I like having the old library check out card in the book. Kinda cool to see the dates it was checked out on.

>>11711928
Where is that Russian store? Seems pretty dope.

>>11709380
But writing in books adds character

I don't know why the previous owner of my copy of Ulysses highlighted and underlined these random phrases, but they stop around page 20 so I can see where they gave up.

>>11712985
unless you live in the middle east I'm afraid it's out of your reach

>>11711885
>His own custom Ex Libris stamp
I have I copy of The Plague from 1947 and I hate that it has this

>>11709380
my copy of Gravity's Rainbow is underlined and highlighted until the Hansel and Gretel sex slaves

This shit was written on a blank page of Jane Eyre I took from the school library.

>>11711586
i love when youre reading philosophy and theyve underlined the most meaningless statements that look "more philosophical" and i assume not thought very much about the explanative or exemplative sections that follow

>>11709380
Why are you reading in a jungle?

>>11709380
>Paying for books in the age of libgen

>not doing marginalia

Here comes the illuminists.

>>11709404
>>11709447
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