/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.20080742]

>buy a secondhand book
>it's filled with marks and annotations
>all the annotations are dumb comments and blatant misreadings that i can't focus on the text

[Anonymous No.20080811]

>>20080742
>all the annotations are dumb comments and blatant misreadings that i can't focus on the text

[Anonymous No.20080876]

>>20080742
Sometimes I find the notes funny as hell and sometimes I find them thought provoking. They never put me off however.

[Anonymous No.20081327]

literal soul

[Anonymous No.20081332]

>>20080742
Mind if i save this pepe?

[Anonymous No.20081337]

>>20080742
>he uses shaving cream
Do wybois really?

[Anonymous No.20081340]

>>20081327
you have no artistic sense, that image didn't work at all

[Anonymous No.20081352]

>notes are written in a feminine script
>most are simple restatements of the text, sometimes factually incorrect
>"analysis" consists of pointing out evidence of the 300 year old author's racism

[Anonymous No.20081354]

>>20080742
>misreadings
How do you know if they are wrong if you can not focus on the text?

[Anonymous No.20081385]

I have a copy of Eusebius and some retard named Stewart took notes in awful print handwriting that made Reddit fedora tier jokes every other page. If you can't write cursive you shouldn't write in a book at all, nobody wants to see your 3rd grade handwriting.

[Anonymous No.20081397]

>>20080742
>Getting cut while shaving
Unless you're using a straight razor for the first time you'd have to be an acrual retard to get cut while shaving. It's basically impossible with cartriges.

[Anonymous No.20081405]

>>20081385
Cursive compromises legibility for speed, which is why it was favored for business and why printing was favored for draftsman and the like where legibility was paramount.

[Anonymous No.20081411]

>>20081385
Nigga, cursive is dead. Move on. Nobody wants to see your racist copperplate bullshit.

[Anonymous No.20081413]

>>20081405
>Cursive compromises legibility for speed
So what you'd want for taking notes in a book? I take notes in a notebook and couldn't imagine writing everything in print.

[Anonymous No.20081524]

>>20081413
>I am still right even if I am wrong
Just because you are in a rush does not mean everyone is and people who have developed their print writing skills get quite quick at it unless they are being anal and going for perfection. The main reason printing is slow for most people is that it is dropped in favor of cursive at a young age and only viewed as a stepping stone to cursive, they never develop the skill. I personally use shorthand for note taking and couldn't imagine writing everything in cursive.

[Anonymous No.20081528]

the person who owns the book after you will think YOU were the one who made them

[Anonymous No.20081546]

>the person who owns the book after you will think YOU were the one who made them

[Anonymous No.20081596]

>>20081337
what's wrong with it?

[Anonymous No.20081610]

>>20081546
>comment all the annotations insulting the previous owner, calling him names
>next owner is in awe

[Anonymous No.20081617]

>>20080742
Write your own comments under the previous owner’s notes explaining why they are wrong duh

[Anonymous No.20081633]

>>20080742
I once borrowed a super old edition of To the Lighthouse and it had annotations from 1930

[Anonymous No.20081730]

>>20080742
>buy secondhand book
>looks almost like new
>exactly one sentence is underlined about two thirds of the way through

[Anonymous No.20081755]

>>20081730
>one highlight in the first paragraph of the introduction

[Anonymous No.20081803]

>>20081755
>the only thing highlighted is the library of congress cataloging-in-publication data on the copyright page

[Anonymous No.20081829]

>>20081730
might be me, lol.

[Anonymous No.20081846]

>>20080742
I mark notable passages with a vertical line on the outer margin

[Anonymous No.20081870]

>>20081846
Minimalists are cringe

[Anonymous No.20081872]

>>20080742
>borrow book from library
>someone who borrowed the book before me wrote inane shit in the margins of every fucking page
>done with book, return it
>librarian sees the annotations
>thinks they are mine

[Anonymous No.20081884]

It always makes me laugh seeing a used book have a lot of underlines and comments early on in it then for them to stop somewhere abruptly. Like, they put the book down and never picked up again or just weren't as excited to read as before.

[Anonymous No.20081903]

>Get copy of Temple Of The Golden Pavilion in the mail
>First page has 'Michael' with a heart sign written in pen

[Anonymous No.20081920]

>using a big sharpie and writing over their annotations as if they were never there

[Anonymous No.20081925]

>>20081610
I do this too lol

[Anonymous No.20081932]

>Left a bunch of notes arguing with the author and calling him a retard

[Anonymous No.20081935]

>>20081884
You can literally identify the moment they got filtered.

[Anonymous No.20081959]

>>20080742
>buy secondhand book
>certain words are underlined with seemingly no correlation
>will never find out why

[Anonymous No.20081971]

>Book about the Mongols in used store
>First page has note "who are the Mongols?"
>no other notes

[Anonymous No.20081972]

>buy secondhand book
>no underlining or annotations, except a single underline of the one time the author said "phallus"

[Anonymous No.20082162]

>>20080742
i bought a secondhand copy of story of the eye
it had all the most deranged passages highlighted in yellow
now i'm worried that if i die suddenly someone will find it and think it was me

[Anonymous No.20082173]

I don't leave any notes or use bookmarks.

[Anonymous No.20082355]

>>20081903
KEK

[Anonymous No.20082740]

>>20080742
>be me
>buy Bible
>only mark up the introduction

[Anonymous No.20083049]

>be me
>take an undergrad phil class on Hegel
>campus wide “social justice” initiative is put in place and teachers who put a social justice book on their syllabus can get extra funding and qualify for a special grant or two.
>cool young prof from U Chi puts Buck-Morris’s Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History on the syllabus
>we are pals and he reassures me that it is actually interesting and not total mumbo jumbo but we probably won’t read it and it is only on the syllabus so he can get some extra funding
>buy the book used from the uni bookstore anyway
>cites 18th century legal and anthropolgical documents arguing Africans are not people
>sheboon who owned the book before me wrote, ‘das rascist!’ in the margins not understanding that was the fucking point
You can’t make this shit up. I returned the book the next day and got my money back.