/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.20302789]

>buy used book at goodwill $2
>has note written inside
>Happy birthday Aaron

[Anonymous No.20302806]

>>20302789
I love finding little notes and things inside used books. makes the reading more soulful. For example there's a train ticket from July 2010 to Dublin Heuston station I found in my copy of Ulysses. Makes a great bookmark, and I wonder where the fellow who took that train is now

[Anonymous No.20302813]

I found a MapQuest printout from 2006 once.

[Anonymous No.20302816]

>>20302789
I love notes in used books. Means that the book has a history. :)

[Anonymous No.20302844]

>>20302806
You know you now have to take the train there, right?

[Anonymous No.20302926]

I like picking my nose and wiping them in books then donating them

[Anonymous No.20302941]

>>20302789
My "Mein Kampf" has a note, a Christmas gift for a dad by his son and daughter, 2001.

[Anonymous No.20302946]

>>20302789
>Buy used books
>Has pubes between pages

[Anonymous No.20302955]

From a recent book I bought. Wonder what happened to them.

[Anonymous No.20302968]

>>20302844
One day I'll go to Ireland and see the country properly

[Anonymous No.20302974]

>buy SH book at antique store for .5€
>has neat cursive on the first blank page
>To my beloved wife (1975)

[Anonymous No.20302979]

>>20302941
Holy shit

[Anonymous No.20302992]

>>20302789
My used copy of Jünger's diaries included a bookmark that was the bottle sticker from some bottom shelf-sounding french wine.

[Anonymous No.20302999]

>>20302941
cool dad award goes to that guy

[Anonymous No.20303016]

>>20302979
I also have Fukuyama's "End of History and the Last Man", with a note from the translator himself (I'm not from an english speaking country) to a friend and his wife, 1994.
That actually sucks.

"Moscow years", parents congratulating their son on enrolling in the Faculty of Political Science, 1977.


Also a very very weird note in my Bhagavad-Gita by some random schizo filling in two pages about how it changed his life forever. I normally have a few Gitas around in case someone's birthday or smtn catches me by surprise so I just gave it to this one fat chick I was dating last year.
I can bet my life she didn't even open it.

[Anonymous No.20303019]

I bought a used copy of Treasure Island recently and inside it had a girls name and Year 6 (which is last year of primary school in UK). I googled her name and found what I believed to be the girl, obviously she was slightly older now, maybe 16~. I closed the browser because I felt like a fucking creep.

[Anonymous No.20303024]

>>20302968
Northern Ireland is a shithole though, stick to the republic

[Anonymous No.20303027]

>>20303019
but was she hot? did you wank it to her bikini pics?

[Anonymous No.20303029]

>>20302999
It given to the dad you dipshit

[Anonymous No.20303031]

>>20303029
cool kids award goes to those kids

[Anonymous No.20303038]

>>20302968
>One day
She's waiting, anon. She may not know it, but she is. You must.

[Anonymous No.20303045]

>>20303027
Her instagram was private but from her profile pic she looked like a typical thot desu

[Anonymous No.20303061]

>>20302789
An abnormally good thread.
Cheers!

[Anonymous No.20303067]

>>20303038
shit anon don't hit mah feels like that

[Anonymous No.20303101]

Thanks, but my birthday is not until next month.

[Anonymous No.20303106]

>>20302789
I know an english guy named that.
(he is not english, he's indian pssssssst)

[Anonymous No.20303144]

>>20302789
>buy used book at antique store/upscale library book sale
>has note written inside
>Xmas 1902

[Anonymous No.20303160]

this is from my 1911 copy of shakespeare

[Anonymous No.20303198]

>>20303160
I see that and raise you

[Anonymous No.20303237]

i got an anthropology book with a bookplate of some wasp who went to trinity college, another about stalin had an asian dude's phone bill, i think i left some anti iraq war stickers in various marxist texts at the rutgers library for future generation to find or maybe i just thought about it and didn't do it, damn, oh well

[Anonymous No.20303258]

>order book from good will
>it comes with pic related as a book mark
>i've used it for like 20 books now

[Anonymous No.20303264]

>>20302789
I know a guy (unfortunately not close enough) who has Gaddafi's green book with Gaddafi's note.
I asked him how much, he didn't want to sell.

[Anonymous No.20303316]

>>20302806
Pic related is something that actually made the news in San Antonio a year ago.

[Anonymous No.20303349]

>>20303316
Is that strange? I've found receipts and bookmarks from used bookstores from the 70s in books I bought last year

[Anonymous No.20303379]

>>20302789
>buy a used book
>pristine condition, no dog ears, person probably never read it
>note on inside cover
>Happy Birthday Jason! This was my favorite book when I was your age. I hope you get as much out of it as I did. xx Grandad

[Anonymous No.20303422]

>>20303316
>wieners AND buns
dang poppa was wildin back in the day

[Anonymous No.20303444]

>>20302789
>browsing poetry books in the library and one of them was in perfect condition with a heartfelt dedication from some simp to his obvious crush
I almost cringed to death.

[Anonymous No.20303478]

>>20303349
Well, HAVE you tried to submitted them to the local news on a slow news day?

[Anonymous No.20303502]

>>20302789
I once ordered a book on Amazon and it came with an original Venusaur card that someone had been using as a bookmark.

[Anonymous No.20303517]

>>20303316
I am enthralled by the purchase of both coke and pepsi, what a true centrist

[Anonymous No.20303522]

>>20303316
>total 7.38
>cash 20.38
well thats nice, he payed with extra change to make it easier for the cashier to give him a rounded out amount of change

[Anonymous No.20303531]

>>20302789
>in my kama sutra there was a flyer for some hindu gatherings in my city, dated 1994.
>bought last year

[Anonymous No.20303548]

>>20303349
The strangeness is that the receipt is for the store she frequents

[Anonymous No.20303564]

>>20302789
>bought a nice used leatherbound edition of Tom Sawyer
>there's a Femanon note: you are my best friend anon, teehee =3
>"STUPID BITCH" aggressively scribbled over it
>there are heavy tear marks all over the page

[Anonymous No.20303591]

>>20303548
Albertsons (still in California and the West Coast) left San Antonio in 2002, so it's nostalgia for San Antonio. She bought the book in a bookstore that was 150 miles to the northeast that had the receipt, which is probably the most unusual part.

[Anonymous No.20303665]

>>20302806
I've got an old copy of Kipling's Kim that has written in the front cover, "Merry Christmas 1944" and the recipient's name that I can't remember at the moment. My mom also has some old dickens books that have notes from the 1890s written in the cover as well. Really cool to find stuff like that.

[Anonymous No.20303673]

>buy a handful of old hardcovers at a thrift store
>all printed in the 1950s
>have the same name and class number, so were all likely used for school
>tfw the owner likely recently died and these books they kept all their adult lives ended up dumped as soon as their family got a hold of them
>look at my own shelves and wonder what their fates will be

[Anonymous No.20303677]

>>20303198
From and old Dickens collection.

[Anonymous No.20303686]

>>20303160
"in the bright lexicon of youth there is no such word as fail" That is fucking brilliant! amazing.

[Anonymous No.20303728]

>>20303686
I just searched it and it's a quote from Edward Bulwer-Lytton
>In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves
For a bright manhood, there is no such word
As "fail".

[Anonymous No.20303740]

>>20302806
>found a worn copy of a book that I wanted to read since I was a teen
>Inside there was a receipt from a liquor store.

>Got a second hand copy from the odyssey
>Inside there was a cardboard slip with some school's logo and a piece of paper to mark the borrowed/returned list.

It's always a nice feeling.

[Anonymous No.20303755]

>>20303379
Fuck.

[Anonymous No.20303859]

>>20303564
lol dumb bitch probably deserved it (i mean the dumb bitch who wrote stupid bitch). she probably got fat and ugly and became a total bitch

[Anonymous No.20303902]

>>20302789
I have a hardback of Mickey Spillane's Kiss Me Deadly with an inscription:
>To Dad
>For Xmas 1953
>From Col & Bev

Which probably means the dad is now dead, and that's why I have his book.

[Anonymous No.20303946]

I have a World War 2 Airman song book and it has a message written inside of it dated 8th September 1968-

>To ***, In memory of the happy days at base in 1940

[Anonymous No.20304088]

>a copy of King Lear with a news clip about how students blindly apply critical theory on the text without understanding either the theory nor the text back in 2006.
>sparsely covered with scribbles of feminist mumble jumbos.

At least she didn't fill up entire page with her almost illegible scribbles.

[Anonymous No.20304111]

I like checking the inside of Book of Mormons at Goodwill to see if a testimony was written in it since the Mormon church encourages their members to do that before giving out one

[Anonymous No.20304142]

>>20303902
He’d probably be glad someone else can still enjoy it.

[Anonymous No.20304210]

>>20302789
This one made me sad (Christmas 2014 btw, so it isnt super old)

[Anonymous No.20304304]

>>20304142
Yeah, I feel better seeing a 1953 gift inscription in a second-hand book than seeing ones like >>20303379 and >>20304210 where it looks like the receiver got rid of the book quickly. The 1953 book looks like it was read, too - it isn't pristine, and the dustjacket has been trimmed at the top and bottom, I assume because the 'dad' read it with the dustjacket still on and it got all torn up at the edges.

[Anonymous No.20304330]

>>20304304
I'm >>20304210 and while I was at the store I purchased another poetry book (George Herbert) that was a gift from one couple to another, and it had some lines underlined in the same pen that the inscription was written in, so I assume that the gifter underlined lines for the receiver. But the book was also from the 50s so it doesn't seem ungrateful like fucking Leah.

[Anonymous No.20304358]

>copy of huckleberry Finn
>Scrap of paper inside
>”I’m returning this. Goodbye.”

[Anonymous No.20304362]

>>20304111
I’ve seen one that had a shitload of signatures on the last page.

[Anonymous No.20304378]

>buy used book for $2
>someone clumsily wrote the author's name on the first blank page
>throw it in the trash

[Anonymous No.20304398]

Written in Dutch from some old poetry book by Albert Speekaert.

At an unexpected new years eve visit in Roosendaal.

JFN Roert ??
8/1/63
Lots of warmth

At top a short poem written down by Hannemie van de Ven on old school notepaper.

[Anonymous No.20304420]

>>20304398
In an old copy of Slauerhoff's Het Verboden Rijk i found a short biography of him.

[Anonymous No.20304422]

My copy of How to Win Friends and Influence People has “property of the us navy” along the bottom of the pages.

[Anonymous No.20304458]

>>20304422
Does it have a 'withdrawn' stamp? If not, some sailor has a big library fine now.

[Anonymous No.20304480]

>>20304458
I just checked the back of the book (admittedly i have not read it yet) and, I have found a card that reads “Return before Jan 5 1970 John Thompson”. Poor bastard.

[Anonymous No.20304483]

>>20302789
I hope Meaghan and Stephen had a good party lived happily

[Anonymous No.20304492]

>>20304483
>Stephen

[Anonymous No.20304508]

>>20304492
???

[Anonymous No.20304539]

>>20304378
Anon...

[Anonymous No.20304543]

>>20304508
Have you read the book?

[Anonymous No.20304549]

>>20303677
BUT IT AIN'T FROM DA BOYZ!!!!

[Anonymous No.20304560]

>>20304543
lol where do you think you are? Of course I haven't read it

[Anonymous No.20304562]

>>20303517
Maybe he had his friends over and some of them liked Pepsi
That list looks like something I buy a lot
My friend has a fire pit so my friends buy some weenies and go over and roast them and get drunk and smoke

[Anonymous No.20304563]

>>20304483
She gave it to him 23 years ago and he's since off-loaded the book, so either he never got the party, or he did get the party but it's long over.

[Anonymous No.20304590]

>>20304483
>>20304563
There was no party. Meaghan, with a slutty spelling like that, became a coal burner. Dedalus simply wasn't interested in smelling the sooty farts of that bitch Meaghan.

[Anonymous No.20304598]

>>20304590
>it only took 76 posts
A new record!

[Anonymous No.20304610]

>>20304590
There are no nigs in BC so unless she moved down to the states, not much risk of that

[Anonymous No.20304745]

>>20303258
>find big get-together family photo from the 40s or 50s in an old book
>has a note on the back explaining who everyone is
>put it with all my other (actual family) photos
>years later, gf is going through photos
>asks who these people are
>get halfway through their names before remembering it isn’t my family
I basically adopted them.

[Anonymous No.20304770]

I'd like to see the 'biographies' of some old books I own: who owned them, and where were they shelved? From stamps and stickers inside some books, I can tell some started out in different countries. There's some with sunned spines and foxed fore-edges; I like to imagine them spending decades on a bookshelf in a sunroom near the ocean. The reality is probably much more prosaic though.

[Anonymous No.20304778]

>>20303444
I wrote that dedication.

[Anonymous No.20304795]

>tfw included in my will a clause that denies inheritance in the event that any of my books are sold or dumped prior to the reading of the will

[Anonymous No.20304807]

>>20304420
Cozy, I'm in the Netherlands myself and I've noticed secondhand books from before the 80s usually have some scraps like that in em. Bought 2 poetry books from the 40s a few years back, one had a newspaper clipping about the author, the other a small note to a previous owner.

[Anonymous No.20304816]

>>20304807
This happened with the last two books I bought, with clippings from the 20s and 50s respectively.

[Anonymous No.20304838]

>>20304816
A dutch practice which contains soul. I might adopt it myself now.

[Anonymous No.20304857]

>>20303422
>>20303522
>The book comes with another story to tell.
This is some for-sale-baby-shoes-never-worn shit right here.

[Anonymous No.20304888]

>>20302946
Literally me
I put eyebrow, scalp hair, eyelash and pubic hairs in mine but I’m never selling

[Anonymous No.20305059]

>>20303379
plot twist he only touched it with reading gloves

[Anonymous No.20305098]

>>20302806
It my grandfather's leather Shakespeare I find an advertisement for a 1930's 'As you like it' with that left-handed pianist, Wittgenstein; was he a homo too? I forget which of them killed themselves and which were homos.

[Anonymous No.20305103]

>>20303160
They had such great writing back then! I have an old 1870's ish children's storybook, illustrated by a, I'd guess, 8 or so year old girl; she drew a pretty little girl in a bonnet, not very well, however—another thing the Victorians excelled at, beautiful children's clothing.

[Anonymous No.20305104]

>>20303379
>>pristine condition, no dog ears, person probably never read it
I mean you couldn't tell which books I've read because I baby them so while this makes great depresso porn it's also entirely possible the guy just babied a gift?

[Anonymous No.20305115]

I am the first person to check out the new copy of Blood Meridian at the library
Bloomer.jpg

[Anonymous No.20305214]

>>20303379
man that's just fucked up. what generation do u think the kid was? millenial? gen z?

[Anonymous No.20305232]

>>20303258
I fuckin thought this was Evangelion from the thumbnail wtf is wrong with me

[Anonymous No.20305248]

>>20303316
Coke Classic
Those were the days

[Anonymous No.20305418]

>>20303522
>to make it easier for the cashier

[Anonymous No.20305432]

In my copy of Look Homeward Angel

[Anonymous No.20305545]

I have this.

[Anonymous No.20305556]

>buy a used book a year ago
>find a receipt from books-a-million dated 1997 wedged in the pages
I wonder what ever happened to that lil' nigga...

[Anonymous No.20305584]

>>20305545
dark and wholesome. are these Chinese characters beneath "Mam"?

[Anonymous No.20305606]

>>20303031
>>20302999
psycho

[Anonymous No.20305607]

Love this, each book has a history

[Anonymous No.20305620]

I buy books and write metaphors relating them to the holocaust and Nazi Germany on every page and then sell them to used book stores.

[Anonymous No.20305708]

>>20305584
No idea. I can't figure it out.

[Anonymous No.20305709]

>>20303019
I just read Treasure Island recently and loved it. I bought the RLS leather bound collection but I'm not sure which novel of his I should read next. Anyone have recommendations?

[Anonymous No.20305815]

>>20302789
i remember having an italian book. the first thing i saw was behind the first page saying how her dad was proud of her going to rome and graduating college and all that shit. i only got through one page cause i dont know italian

[Anonymous No.20305825]

>>20305815
I wonder how much bbc she took

[Anonymous No.20305899]

My copy of the magician of lublin has a israel sticker and was signed by a dude with an arab-spanish surname… must have a cool history behind it

[Anonymous No.20305928]

>>20305825
kek

[Anonymous No.20305958]

>>20303024
Nah the whole island is equally shit. t. Stab City resident.

[Anonymous No.20306080]

>>20304560
Oh ok well try just reading the first page and you'll see what I mean.

[Anonymous No.20306124]

>>20303522
>>20305418
I do this, it's less to make it easier for the cashier and more to get rid of change. The cashier still has to count the change you give them (plus wait for you to count the change as well) to so it doesn't really make it easier.

[Anonymous No.20306135]

>>20304598
but only 9 posts after the first Ulysses post

[Anonymous No.20306152]

This was a book of Chaucer and Spenser presented to my great-great-great grandfather

[Anonymous No.20306153]

>>20303019
You should read De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period by Salinger, trust me

[Anonymous No.20306164]

>>20303531
Speaking of Land..his last twitter post was 13 April and given the situation in Shanghai...is the all right?

[Anonymous No.20306178]

>>20303564
Please please please post a photo of this

[Anonymous No.20306378]

>>20305606

[Anonymous No.20306423]

>>20302789
>buy an old Bible
>it's got an end page inscription in it
>it was a Christmas gift in 1954 from a grandmother to her grandson
I got the Bible rebound which required new end pages, but rather than toss it out, I instructed them to excise the inscription page and send it back with the rebound Bible. I still have it and often pray for that family whom I don't even know.

[Anonymous No.20307199]

>>20306152
>first prize, greek, Cicero and Virgil
man you're great grandpops was a patrician

[Anonymous No.20307264]

>>20304745
This sounds like a tamer version of the plot of One Hour Photo.

[Anonymous No.20307320]

>>20304210
What a fucking asshole

[Anonymous No.20307328]

>>20302789
Not really /lit/, but I bought a used copy of Gamma World 2E and when I got it home a bunch of ads for guns fell out the middle along. One of them had "NOTHING STICKS TO TEFLON!!!!" scrawled and underlined on it.

/lit/ related, I bought a copy of Phantases and there was a black and white picture of a father and daughter hugging and looking happy folded into one of the final pages. It always made me wonder what happened to them.

[Anonymous No.20307335]

>>20306164
Probably cooling off in a covid camp after testing positive. He'll be out soon and back to retweeting Gateway Pundit before you know it.

[Anonymous No.20307345]

>>20307264
Lol true.

[Anonymous No.20307363]

>>20303016
>I normally have a few Gitas around in case someone's birthday or smtn catches me by surprise
This is a lifehack I never knew I needed.

[Anonymous No.20307374]

>>20306178
He won't because he made it up.

[Anonymous No.20307382]

>>20302941
Based kids.

[Anonymous No.20307405]

>>20305606
Post more asshurt

[Anonymous No.20307439]

This is a beat-up first edition of "A Treasury of Kahlil Gibran, signed by the editor. I just picked it up off the sidewalk in Berkeley one day.

[Anonymous No.20307537]

>>20307439
I had a signed copy of The Prophet once.
Then a pipe burst right next to my library.