Why the fuck do people do this

[Anonymous No.23208890]

[Anonymous No.23208895]

>>23208890
>No! You can't write on an industrially produced book!

[Anonymous No.23208899]

>capital A is just a huge a
i agree it's cringe

[Anonymous No.23208903]

>>23208890
Dunno, but I find it kind of intriguing.
My book collection is mostly second-hand, so there are lots of dedications written by people I never knew. Some of them pretty old.
I think it adds character to a book. I like to know it had another life before it came to me.

[Anonymous No.23208904]

>>23208890
>Why the fuck do people do this
Write in cursive that I have to look at for minutes to understand? Yeah it's bullshit

[Anonymous No.23208914]

>>23208899
>>23208904
>/lit/ can't into cursive

[Anonymous No.23208929]

>>23208914
When did they stop teaching cursive in your countries?
In mine all through elementary and secondary cursive was mandatory.
I remember in elementary the teachers would tell us off when we paused writing to cross the "t"s and dot the "i"s, telling us to finish the word before adding that.

[Anonymous No.23208933]

>>23208890
I like it. My father found, in a random bookstore several hours away, a book which had been signed 100 years ago by a very distant relative of ours on a subject which I have a deep interest. It has now joined my collection of family heirlooms, as an interesting testament to the nature of the family blood. I even sign books to myself if their procurement involved some interesting occurrence I wish to recall and note for my progeny. I enjoy knowing the personal history of a tome. There's this one anthology I have which has the classroom notes of some struggling student in 1977 in it. I've kept the notes as they were. It is a peek into history. Before long, no one from 1977 will even walk the earth, and shortly after my generation will follow.

>>23208904
Work on your cursive hand.

[Anonymous No.23208945]

>>23208890
I love getting used books and this one of the reasons. I just a complete works of Shakespeare without this as you open the flap. I wonder if the names were covered before it was sent to the seller or the seller did it themselves?

[Anonymous No.23208958]

I find it cute, and yet I would never do it myself, as I'm autistically particular about maintaining my own things.

[Anonymous No.23208971]

>>23208890
this is nice
>>23208945
this is not

[Anonymous No.23208986]

>>23208929
i speak as an american who graduated 10 years ago
it was only a year-long exercise when you were like 8-9 years old (3rd grade). after that you never needed to write in cursive again, writing in print was acceptable
but very recently, connecticut passed a law encouraging schools to teach cursive from grades K-8, and other states are doing something similar. we'll see how it goes

[Anonymous No.23208992]

>>23208890
Way to reveal to everybody that you don't have any friends, OP

[Anonymous No.23208994]

>>23208903
>>23208958
>>23208971
Its defacement. You are making a book personal and diminishing its value for any subsequent owner. Especially when you could easily write a note on a slip of paper and nestle it in so that it could easily be removed by the person who gets it after the original recipient (who obviously didnt care) donates it to Goodwill

[Anonymous No.23208996]

>>23208994
You sound like a communist.

[Anonymous No.23208999]

>>23208992
If someone gave me a book that they wrote a personalized inscription on the front page, we would no longer be friends

[Anonymous No.23209004]

>>23208999
>Yeah well if I did eat those grapes, I'd bet they'd be sour!
Keep digging this hole for yourself and you might reach China

[Anonymous No.23209005]

>>23208945
This is terribly ugly. Even without the redaction why the fuck would you chose to write an inscription on the cover pattern page

[Anonymous No.23209014]

>>23209004
Ignoring the fact you are too stupid to realize the crux of this post concerns buying used books, you are also a faggot.

[Anonymous No.23209016]

post cursive if youre not a third worlder

[Anonymous No.23209019]

>>23208994
>the original recipient (who obviously didnt care)
>anon doesn't know about death
Who's going to tell him?

[Anonymous No.23209027]

>>23208994
See
>>23208895

[Anonymous No.23209030]

>>23208994
>Its defacement.
why are you guys like this now?

[Anonymous No.23209035]

>>23209027
Lol these inscriptions are always on high quality hardcovers. No one except exceptionally colossal faggots would inscribe a trade paperback you dingus

[Anonymous No.23209036]

>>23209014
>Marginalia is bad because... It just is OKAY!

[Anonymous No.23209037]

>replying to bait

[Anonymous No.23209038]

>>23209014
You're complaining about someone writing a heartfelt note to their loved one on the blank pages of the cover. Pic related is a much bigger issue when shopping for used books and pisses me off to absolutely no end

[Anonymous No.23209041]

>>23208994
That sole unit of the book might lose its cleanliness but at the same time if that book is in print constantly or it was autographed by the author then its it really a big deal? I get books that aren't in print and old but I don't think people will cry a river if YA novel #9999999993 has a cutesy marker scribed on it. Hell it might even give historical value to the book when world war 3 happens and the new generation of scholars find it.

[Anonymous No.23209047]

>>23209038
holy this

[Anonymous No.23209048]

>>23209038
Easily detectable to be swiftly disregarded. Its much easier to miss inscriptions. So many times Ive brought home what I thought would be my beautiful new hardcover only to discover it actually is Meghans which she got from Katy in Christmas of 2002 and never read.

[Anonymous No.23209057]

>>23209041
I dont care if YA schlop gets inscribed on. Im never going to read it anyway. As far as an author signature, thats a huge plus and exceedingly rare to find in literature.
My problem is with high quality expensive literature hardbacks that for some reason people seem to fee the need to purposely deface with a personal inscription

[Anonymous No.23209064]

>>23209016
>if youre not a third worlder
say the guy with a picture that has 300 pixels in it and is barely readable lol

[Anonymous No.23209078]

>>23208890
People are gay

[Anonymous No.23209080]

>>23209016
that's not how you write capitals in cursive

[Anonymous No.23209083]

>>23208994
Calm down and take your autism meds.
Wait until you buy a book with random underlining and highlighting that inexplicably stops after 20 pages.

[Anonymous No.23209088]

>>23208890
Because you touch yourself at night.

[Anonymous No.23209108]

>>23209083
He's angrier than you which means he's right.

[Anonymous No.23209216]

>>23209016
Second and third worlders are pretty much the only people who can write cursive anymore.

[Anonymous No.23209257]

>>23208914
a cursive A is not a large a

[Anonymous No.23209268]

>>23209257
different countries have different cursive alphabets

[Anonymous No.23209310]

>>23208994
you're a fag. i enjoy finding notes like these to people from decades ago. they actually imbue the book with character and make you value the book more than if it were just blank.

[Anonymous No.23209323]

>>23208890
I love finding shit like this in books. I keep all the sticky notes, and photos, and postcards I find in the used books I purchase.

[Anonymous No.23209354]

>Be in british university
>University takes on a fuckload of American Post-Grad students
>They need to be able to mark handwritten exams
>they can't into cursive
>exam results delayed

it was a russel group university

[Anonymous No.23209377]

>>23209268
When I moved to Europe this became my new fetish: older peoples' handwriting. Younger people don't as much.

[Anonymous No.23209378]

>No qt3.14 to throw you a Ulysses themed party
Why live?

[Anonymous No.23209382]

>>23209354
to be fair, some people have really atrocious penmanship and they don't bother to make it legible for anyone but themselves
ioncesawaguywriteasifspacesbetweenwordswerenotathing, why the fuck would you do this

[Anonymous No.23209388]

>>23209382
for it to be fair there should be a "can i read cursive" test for markers and a "can i write" test for students if we cannot assume students and markers can read and write.

[Anonymous No.23209394]

>>23209378
>Well worn
>He got that party in the end
Fly high, Stephen

[Anonymous No.23209403]

>>23208890
I had an ex-girlfriend that did this in books she gave me
was cute when we were dating, now it's so goddamn annoying to see whenever I pick up a book from when we were together

[Anonymous No.23209429]

I wouldn't do it to a book, but it's cool when you can learn something about the previous owner.

[Anonymous No.23209434]

>>23209382
>make it legible for anyone but themselves
I can't even read my own writing unless I've literally just written it.

[Anonymous No.23209450]

>>23208890
A few years ago i bought a beautiful hardcover copy of Leaves of Grass & collected prose of Whitman at a used store

Once I got it home I found an inscription to someones gay lover on the opening page. Not homophobic but legit couldnt read the book without thinking of two gays reading it to each other after having gay sex. Ended up selling it back to a different bookstore

[Anonymous No.23209459]

>>23209450
I want this book

[Anonymous No.23209463]

>>23208890
My gf made me go to Ikea a week ago. There was a random book decorating a bedroom display that was printed in the 1800s and had a "Merry Christmas" inscription to someone's mother. It was nice.

[Anonymous No.23209469]

>>23208994
Why are you posting this?

[Anonymous No.23209482]

I have a secondhand with a bunch of Chinese handwriting and notes in it.

[Anonymous No.23209492]

>>23209378
he read that book in a day

[Anonymous No.23209599]

>>23208890
I don't like these but I love a bookplate. I think dedications make me a little sad because a lot of the time the book, which was a gift, was given away or sold by the recipient.

[Anonymous No.23209605]

>>23209599
Yeah generally the case. Lot of the time cleary there was a breakup

[Anonymous No.23209628]

>>23209429
Little Simp

[Anonymous No.23209633]

>>23209429
Why are white women like this?

[Anonymous No.23209642]

>>23209310
I bet you also like sleeping with girls who have had sex with other men. Faggot retard

[Anonymous No.23209654]

>>23209642
Jokes on you, I sleep with men.

[Anonymous No.23209672]

>>23209642
enjoy your sterile books, don't even crack open the spine so it can be virginal just like you, you dickless sissy

[Anonymous No.23209702]

>>23209450
>>23209654
Hmmm

[Anonymous No.23209749]

>>23209450
Kek

[Anonymous No.23209960]

>>23209654
With prolapsed asses?

[Anonymous No.23210090]

>>23208929
probably because of something that begins with an N and ends with an R.

[Anonymous No.23210103]

>>23208890
It's "NORMAL" what's the big deal?

[Anonymous No.23210123]

>>23208890
>why SOVL

[Anonymous No.23210173]

>>23210103
Who are you quoting?

[Anonymous No.23210188]

>>23208994
I'm an oldfag and some of my most treasured possessions are books I got as gifts from my highschool girlfriend, with notes in the beginning and all her favorite passages underlined and notated. If you don't like it, get a job so you can afford to buy new books.

[Anonymous No.23210227]

Don’t mind finding the odd note here and there in used books. It can be interesting stuff sometimes.

[Anonymous No.23210267]

>>23210090
what like just one?

the big nigg that stops kids from learning to write?

[Anonymous No.23210276]

>>23210188
How am I supposed to get limited prints from defunct publishers brand new bruv? Im not paying penguin shekelberg for a low quality new print

[Anonymous No.23210286]

>>23210276
It's just a book, son. The words are the same regardless of the edition. If you really have such a hard on for having rare older editions sitting on your bookshelf to impress your nonexistent friends then, again, you'd better get a job so you can afford to buy them. You can always find relatively pristine older books; you just have to pay a premium for them because there are lots of fags like you who want them too.

[Anonymous No.23210287]

>>23209378
never read ulysses but wtf, that prose isn't that difficult

[Anonymous No.23210312]

>>23210286
Bro. Im in way better shape than you. I can deadlift almost 500 lbs all natty. I slam college aged pussy regularly. Im not having some young art hoe sitting naked on my bed thumbing through a penguin deluxe classic edition of Lucretius after Ive fucked her brains out. I need to see her holding a beautiful leather bound piece of art with unfaded high quality lignan paper thats at least a decade older than she is. The last thing I want is to see her reading some stupid fucking inscription some asshole wrote in it thinking they were unique. I dont expect you to understand, as you have no aesthetic sense and could never even dream of the life that I live. Enjoy your fucking slop trade paperbacks you DYEL faggot

[Anonymous No.23210337]

I write in pencil in the margins of almost every page I read. It's very helpful to me, personally.

[Anonymous No.23210350]

>>23210312
imagine being this insecure

as the kids would say
yikes

[Anonymous No.23210354]

>>23210173
Read the inscription that's written on the book in the picture posted.

[Anonymous No.23210356]

>>23210312
>>23210350
Kek more like fucking based lit chad

[Anonymous No.23210358]

>>23210173
Guess I should've posted a Carlos with my post?

[Anonymous No.23210370]

>>23208890
>writing candid notes to friends and loved ones is LE BAD!
>why don't I have any friends?

[Anonymous No.23210373]

>>23210350
Fuck you anon, fuck you until you improve the aesthetic void you mistake for a life. Im not surprised youre quoting zoomerism tic toc garbage.

[Anonymous No.23210375]

>>23210356
We all know you're samefagging but I'll play along and say that if you actually believe anything about >>23210312 then we need to invent some new words because gullible and naïve aren't going to be enough.

[Anonymous No.23210379]

>>23210373
write a better larp next time kid

or as /fit/ would say
post body

[Anonymous No.23210380]

>>23210375
Lol what a faggot

[Anonymous No.23210392]

>>23210375
t. actual anon here. Not surprised you immediately cry larp. Youre likely low test and never so much as seen the inside of the gym. You cant comprehend my life and my aesthetics. Start barbell training ASAP anon and start collecting leather bound classic literature

[Anonymous No.23210394]

>>23208994
I annotate first editions. I like to think my ownership of the book and my annotations make it more valuable than being in mint condition. Like a book annotated by Thomas Jefferson.

[Anonymous No.23210407]

>>23210392
>it's silly to care so much about what a book's cover looks like
>YOU WILL NEVER HAVE A BODY LIKE MINE I CAN LIFT 500 LBS
Lol no, don't worry, I do fully believe that you spend a lot of time in the gym because no one who had anything else going on in their life would respond like you have.

The part that's a blatant larp is the idea that after you fuck some 20 year old, she's doing anything other than talking to you or scrolling on her phone. But no, I'm sure that all of the multiple young girls you bring home every week are just desperate for the opportunity to learn about Epicurean physics via poem. Totally believable.
>thats at least a decade older than she is.
And oooh, fancy boy has an edition from the 1990s? Wow, such an ancient treasure!

[Anonymous No.23210424]

>>23210407
Lol clearly you have not spent any time around young art girls anon. Im not surprised. My style of dress and the spaces I hang out makes it easy to attract art girls. And like a bee to a flower they cant help checking out my shelves. I keep a few Sally Rooneys and a first edition Atwood leatherbound at the forefront for that purpose. Like I said i dont expect you to understand.

[Anonymous No.23210455]

>>23210424
That's nice but if it were true then you wouldn't be so massively insecure to the point that a simple comment about the unimportance of a book's cover would warrant a response like
>>23210312
You just went a little too far, that's all. Tone it down a bit next time and it might be a bit more believable. Lucretius was definitely way too far, the exact sort of name a pseud would drop if he were desperately trying to convince other people of his erudition. But I think you'll do better next time. I really do.

[Anonymous No.23210458]

>>23210424
I wouldn't personally, myself. Their worldview would clash with mine

[Anonymous No.23210513]

>>23210455
Anon. Maybe youre feeling emasculated. Thats natural. But youll never know. Not the way youre living. Imagine anon. A 21 yo little arts major looking up at you asking “whats this book about anon” and then sitting there with her eyes twinkling while you fucking mansplain it to her. Thats my life.
Its not too late, unless you are sub 5’10, then off to the pit. But start lifting. Barbell training. SS or stronglifts are both great. Eat clean. Collect leatherbound vintage classics.

[Anonymous No.23210567]

>>23208890
My brother sent me a book with a handwritten dedication in it, I was touched. He did write the book, granted...

[Anonymous No.23210578]

>>23210513
>he still hasn't posted body
lmao
larp confirmed

[Anonymous No.23210594]

>>23208994
What a hot house flower. Get a grip. There are entire races of people that deface the planet just by existing

[Anonymous No.23210644]

>>23210594
Go back to your containment board, faggot

[Anonymous No.23210806]

>>23208929
Amerifag here. I used it all the way through high school. Started using print in college, then in my late twenties made a point of it to start writing in cursive again. Glad I went back. It’s so much smoother, and normies can’t read the offensive things I write.

[Anonymous No.23210810]

>>23210287
Ulysses belongs on the trash heap with every other intentionally dense work of modernist garbage. One of the few works I actively hate.

[Anonymous No.23210821]

>>23208890
Books were more expensive then and so was calling cross country. And there were fewer distractions/demands on time in entertainment, so a book was less of an imposition.

>>23208914
Most 'cursive' doesn't pass actual calligraphy muster. Make something your own that's legible or interesting to look at.

>>23208933
>It has now joined my collection of family heirlooms

Families should have and retain personal libraries. They're not trivial an outlay to make in the first place, and you're not getting value on the second hand market selling them outside of antiquarian titles. That's very cool you found that piece from a forebearer.

>>23208994
Books worth having shouldn't leave the sphere of one's relations in the first place. But some people die and the people handling their estate don't appreciate them, or they have no next of kin. It's unavoidable. I'd be more up at arms over pen annotations in sloppy wavy underlining that's never going to be revisited in the first place.

>>23209038
Pen + that fag script is abominable. It's not any more legible-- bracket around the passage in a block, cleaving to the upper & lower line at most (IN PENCIL). Worst I've seen was fucking CRAYON. And of course, only 1/3rd the text was gotten through.

[Anonymous No.23210862]

>>23210810
-> the joke


-> (you)

[Anonymous No.23210868]

>>23208890
Snob shit, They have seen it in movies and think its cool and sophisticaded.

[Anonymous No.23211053]

>>23209450
kek

if I ever have a spare copy of Leaves of Grass I want to copy your post into it in perfect cursive before giving it to a thrift store

[Anonymous No.23211067]

>>23210810
>intentionally dense
Interesting critique. I guess ill read the cliff notes instead. Perhaps a YouTube video of a PHD discussing the book.

[Anonymous No.23211224]

I just think it doesn't look appealing to write about books, especially when the book is expensive

[Anonymous No.23211228]

>>23211224
On not about my bad

[Anonymous No.23211233]

>>23210644
NTA but what he say that was factually incorrect?

[Anonymous No.23211235]

>mom used to write things like that in the books she gave me
>teenage me told her to stop doing that
>now I know one day she'll be gone and I'll cherish everything she wrote in them

[Anonymous No.23211260]

>>23211235
you can still tell her to start doing it again

[Anonymous No.23211266]

You have to be fucking autistic to not understand why someone would do this. Jesus christ it's like autists are allergic to enjoying things or something

[Anonymous No.23211268]

My dad would constantly give me shit for bending the corner of the page to mark where i stopped reading and then i saw my literature professor do that shit all the time and realised how retarded it is to care so much about that kind of thing.

[Anonymous No.23211278]

[Anonymous No.23211279]

[Anonymous No.23211287]

[Anonymous No.23211305]

>>23208890
Because it makes the gift feel more personal to the recipient. My pet peeve is people who do pic related. Every fucking page is like that, and I hope whoever did this suffers greatly in life.

[Anonymous No.23211316]

>>23211235
Recant that request. A few months ago right around my birthday I grabbed a book off my shelf to reference something and an old birthday card fell out that my Mom gave me maybe seven or eight years ago. In it she thanked me for everything I had done for her (She had been sick for years). It meant a lot to me because now there's nobody left who remembers my birthday, or appreciates anything I do for them for that matter.

[Anonymous No.23211317]

>>23208890
I like these, but I'm very sentimental. It makes me think of the previous owner, and how they thumbed through that same book reading it and enjoying it so long ago. If there's a name I always try to look them up online.

[Anonymous No.23211428]

>>23208890
I don't write on the covers, but I do write on a blank page of a book I've read for my general thoughts on it, and sign. I like to think that my children might be interested in reading it after I'm gone and want to know what I thought of it and why I kept the book.
I write a dedication on a blank page or title page near the front if I'm giving away a used book from my shelf, especially if it's well-worn, sort of as a way of telling them also that I didn't just go into some used book store and got you whatever I saw there, I thought about what to give you and why. I don't do this on books I bought new from Barnes and Noble or Amazon though.

[Anonymous No.23211562]

>>23208890
great gesture I wish someone would gift me books that way

[Anonymous No.23211609]

>>23211266
I have an autism diagnosis that stretches back three decades and even I know it's just a nice gesture. You seem to be confusing autism with functionally retarded here.

[Anonymous No.23211763]

>>23211287
Disgusting

[Anonymous No.23211796]

>>23209038
this is based. I annotate my books too

[Anonymous No.23212284]

>>23210821
>Families should have and retain personal libraries.
Oh, I fully agree.
>That's very cool you found that piece from a forebearer.
Thanks, anon.

[Anonymous No.23212445]

>>23211796
Serious question, why?

[Anonymous No.23212892]

>>23208994
It's subsequent owner will see it as a family heirloom so that's not a problem, faggot

[Anonymous No.23212923]

>>23209057
I found Limonov's signature on a second-hand copy Memoirs of a Russian punk that I ordered off of AbeBooks lol

[Anonymous No.23212963]

>>23209429

[Anonymous No.23212993]

>>23212923
Neat but probably not going to make the book worth more. Limonov signed thousands of books
>>23212963
Gross. Would legit cut that page out of the book

[Anonymous No.23213060]

>>23208890
I can't read cursive

[Anonymous No.23213188]

>>23211305
Pages with large blank spaces are for notes. The actual body of the book should be left alone.

[Anonymous No.23213190]

I can't read that at all. I can't read cursive. I can't read latin. I can't read any of that stuff. I can't even read philosophical english.

[Anonymous No.23213351]

>>23210394
based

[Anonymous No.23214393]

You guys are faggots. If someone gifted me a book and wrote a note like that to me in the cover, I'd be really flattered. The last time someone bought me a book I read it cover to cover in a day.

[Anonymous No.23214511]

>>23209354
Britishers can't write cursive either

[Anonymous No.23214555]

>>23211305
goddamn at least make the lines straight

[Anonymous No.23215039]

>>23209429
I have no problem reading upside down text but it was genuinely difficult to drop down to the next line while reading that. Even after I knew I needed to drop down an extra line from where instinct told me I still couldn't do it.

[Anonymous No.23215622]

>>23209083
>inexplicably
Anon, you really find it "inexplicable" that someone would stop reading a book?

[Anonymous No.23215631]

>>23212993
>Gross
Why?

[Anonymous No.23215671]

>>23210267
Do you understand what a lowest common denominator is?

[Anonymous No.23215711]

Uhh, what exactly did the previous owner mean by these notes?

[Anonymous No.23215796]

It's kinda funny, my first girlfriend worked in a used bookstore and would wonder about the history behind all these "To my soul mate..." inscriptions on books people threw out. As a result she thought it was just ruining the books. It took some effort to get her to do one for me. Haven't seen her in 15 years but I still have the book.

[Anonymous No.23216040]

>>23208994
The people disagreeing with you would never date a nonvirgin woman yet they don't mind owning a spoiled book. Hypocrites.

[Anonymous No.23216287]

>>23214511
Please do the needful and learn cursive saaaaar

[Anonymous No.23217418]

>>23210644
you get lost looking for goodreads?

[Anonymous No.23217540]

>>23208994
>diminishing its value for any subsequent owner.

>adding history to an object
>diminishing its value
brainlet retard, if anything it ADDS value.

[Anonymous No.23217547]

I bought some Berserk volumes and the guy's internet bill from 2008 was in it. It was the chapter Slan is summoned form troll innards

[Anonymous No.23217672]

>>23209378
>bookmarking the first page
Not a good start