/lit/ - Literature

>>18350894
Don’t feel bad at all for this anon. Your emotion is a sign of your humanity. Really I pity the nephew, what a cold hearted creature.

>>18350894
I love getting second hand books with dedications in them. The book feels more alive as an artifact. I get to imagine the moment, the people, and how that lil' ol' book fell into my hands.

What I really dislike are brainlet annotations, especially in pen. My friend bought a second hand copy of the Iliad where the marginalia just criticized the actions of the gods with 'muh atheism'.

>>18350924
It's sad though
I mean you could say the aunt had really good intentions and just didn't know what the nephew wanted but then that hurts me too
>>18350938
I'm ok if the book is well read but yeah, I feel the same way you do with notes and scribblings
Feels more comfy that way

>>18350938
Excuse me

>>18351008
looool this is great

>>18351008
:3

xD

Brother.

Getting a gift from a beloved relative who meant well but you have no use for it is an awful feeling

>>18350988
Maybe the nephew never received the book, because he was killed in an accident the day before his birthday, and you bought the book from the aunt.

>>18350894
If it's an old enough book, maybe the nephew did read it, but then his children gave it away after his death.

>>18351184
For sale: book, never read.

>>18350938
My favorites are the ones that were clearly given on Christmas. Also looking at how nicely people used to write back then. Having good penmanship is a lost and underappreciated skill these days.

>>18351008
Magnificent. You need to find who owned that book before you and woo her.

I always like seeing the unused library cards in the back, knowing that it was never checked out of a library.

>>18351008
This will one day be extremely amusing to future historybuffs. Today, it is upsetting only because it is contemporary.

>>18350938
I bought a secondhand book where some woman had gone through with a highlighter circling entire paragraphs and highlighting many of the passages.

>>18351301
I have a collection of Christmas themed poetry where the book was given as a gift to some siblings from a mother or aunt or something and has an inscription in it. It's from 2013 I think, so they obviously gave it away.

>>18351323
The comments make me think that it's a woman but the handwriting leads me to think it's a man. If I had to guess I'd say woman though, just a particularly dumb one with bad handwriting.

>>18351008
>what is a holding?

>buy used iliad
>Annotations every where until the last page
>Name in title page written using pink name
>Search her name
>She's very hot but she has a dumb ask.fm page

>>18351008
>There's a god who made a plan
>No there isn't

Genuine question for lit anons, do you deface books? I never write in them. I think it's barbarism.

>>18352012
>her having an ask.fm
>you caring enough to check it
You're both irredeemable

>>18350938
Opposite for me. As much as possible I don't want to be reminded that anyone else has ever read in the past what I'm reading, which is part of the reason I hate introductions. I also don't want to think of it being written by someone, so I don't like author photos on books

>>18352041
If they're my books, I sometimes underline or write in them with a pencil. I also sometimes, in lieu of a bookplate, will put my name and the year in the front with a pen. If it's one of my rare or old books I typically never write in them though, mostly because — in these cases — I consider myself a temporary custodian of a book that will have many owners over its lifespan.

>>18352091
You are damaged, my friend.

>>18351008
is there anything like this online? I would love to have this kind of realtime social experience while reading, sure it's not ideal but i can't get deep enough into most of the books where this kind of little distraction wouldn't be appreciated.

>>18352041
I had a latin textbook in school where I wrote every single translation next to the passage.

>>18352056
Googled her name and one of the results were ask fm

I had to google her name because it was a rather unique name and probably unheard of in my country it's like having someone named Satoshi or Shaniqua in some bumpkin area of Albania