/lit/ - Literature

Why would anyone want to depreciate the resale value of their books?

>>12479179

Books ought to be lived through. I write in them, throw them around etc.

Call me a romantic or a sentimental soul, but Reading should be a personal experience. When you look back at a book that you read through, all your thoughts and notes and scribbles it will connect you more to the unique time you spent with literature. The pleasure of reading should not be held back by petty thoughts of "resale value" (looking at you, post above)

If you are a lit student you essentially have to take notes in them so...so much for that...

>>12479223
if you become a famous author it'll be worth more

>>12479308
Do you make love and jizz on them too?

>>12479223
maybe you don't want to sell them

>>12479308
I agree.
I think books should be used. A book without notes has been used mindlessly, like watching a hollywood film or listening to pop music in the background

>>12479179
recently got a book from the library with simple english sentences written in pencil, probably by someone practicing the language
it also contained a DIY bookmark made from a beer label

>>12479586
What a naughty question to ask. As I said, I m a romantic...

>>12479179
I can keep all my ideas in my head, so writing them down isn't really necessary. What if I forget? Well, I never forget. Not if it interests me.

>>12479179
I own a copy of nabakov's translation of "A hero of our time" I got at a thrift store that has all kinds of notes written into it, there's a difficultly worded passage that was highlighted, underlined, and circled with a note written into the margin that said something like "Utterly incomprehensible. Nabakov fails in his prose once again."

>>12479771
Also, I remember there being a mini essay written into a blank page comparing Lermontov and Gogol

>>12479586
You cry on them? Pee? Maybe shit and cum?

>>12479765
Based three ideas pseud

>>12479906

>>12479923
I'm serious though, I just don't know why I would need to write down an philosophical musings since they're not gonna leave.

>>12479179
If they're non-fiction I do to reference later.

>>12479974
having the book marked makes it easier to find the source page

it's not needed when you're reading in a dilettante mode, but useful if you write essays or will discuss the book in a class or group

>>12480332
>having the book marked makes it easier to find the source page
I totally agree but I tend to abstain from defacing some of my nicer books. I have some that are ravaged with highlighter and notes. I have regretted not taking notes in a book more often than I have regretted defacing a book.

>>12479179
As new. I'm not that much of an animal. I only use those sticky thingies instead.

>>12479663
That's fucking retarded
Are you mentally handicapped?
you need to take notes to finish a book?

>>12480614
unless you read shit, yes, people take notes

>>12480332
>but useful if you write essays or will discuss the book in a class or group
Oh, well
I don't read for schooling purposes.

>>12479223
>resale value

>>12479179
I hoard books. I like to pretend that they are my friends. I am never going to sell any of them so I mark them with impunity.

I sometimes hightlight and make marginal notes with my paperbacks, but never my hardcovers. I rarely do it with fiction.

Marginalia is lit af. All medieval and romantics do that.

>not doing marginalia

>>12479179

>>12479906
this is the second time I've seen this meme format gimme the rundown

>>12483182
Looks hideous.

>>12479179
the patrician option is to have a notebook containing multiple hand-written annotations from various books of note to prevent other visitors in your home from usurping your soul accidentally.

>>12479223
What is this reasle thing

I write properly cited notes in a separate book of my own because I am not a fucking animal

>>12483182
if the same amount of penmanship as of thought would have gotten into this lovely volume, I'd declare this anon to be bas'd.

>>12485012
>accidentally
Can't happen to me. if any future historians will collect my annotations and writings, they will have to learn my handwriting, special symbols, an invented language, and my sytematic philosophy. (Of course, given I die young and famous... because if I die old I will have a canonic complete works edition, and if I die unknown, no one will care.)

>not drawing random stuff there
absolutely pleb

why would you do that?
what do you gain from it?

>>12485056
godspeed

>>12479771
Based.

>>12483182

>>12480614
>doesn't take notes and expound their thoughts on the passages read
Not /lit/...

>>12479179
I'm fine with the idea of it, a lot of the time though I think it's impossible for me to put as much thought into notes as the author has into the book. Or that it's not appropriate for me to comment on something very personal to the author/ I haven't expeirenced. If I were reading a book about the horrors and monotony of trench warfare in WWI, I wouldn't be comfortable in adding anything, even descriptions of how I felt reading it.