Buffy ,'The Killer In Me'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
I may wind up selling my OSC's on eBay, but I don't think I could bring myself to physically damage one (to send him the covers). I once accidentally water-damaged my LotR set by putting a leaky humidifier on top of the bookshelf and I felt like I'd run over a puppy for about a week afterwards. It's not the books' fault their author is a raging psychotic bigot, you know?
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I may wind up selling my OSC's on eBay, but I don't think I could bring myself to physically damage one (to send him the covers). I once accidentally water-damaged my LotR set by putting a leaky humidifier on top of the bookshelf and I felt like I'd run over a puppy for about a week afterwards. It's not the books' fault their author is a raging psychotic bigot, you know?
I'm actually with you on this. I find it difficult to write in the margins of textbooks, let alone damage any other kind of book.
I'll probably just send them back whole.
I find it difficult to write in the margins of textbooks, let alone damage any other kind of book.
I happily wrote in the margins of my math/science textbooks. Never EVER in anything for an English/Lit class. Even when it was the teacher's STRONGLY recommended (read: mandatory but unenforceable because at the end of the day they were our books) method of note-taking. I just couldn't do it. Not even with books I hated.
Oddly, I love finding other people's notes in the margins of used books.
Oh, and I finally started writing in cookbooks after I realized that it really wasn't fair to get mad at DH for making a recipe "wrong" by following what was in the book, just because the way I use recipes is as a memory jog for the bits I've changed.
I have no problem writing/underlining/etc. in mass-market paperbacks.
I sometimes write in trade paperbacks (of novels, NOT comics).
I would sooner cut off my hand than write in a hardcover book that isn't a textbook.
Bizarre hierarchy, huh?
Is that where the 70% off books come from?
Yep! What happens is that hardcover books get pulled from the regular shelves within a few months of release, eventually sold to a remainder company that warehouses them for a few years, and then they sell them back to the stores as bargain books.
I happily write in all my books. It's like I'm having a conversation with them.
Random thought I had on the plane yesterday rereading my Bujolds: David Tennant should play Miles Vorkosigan.
I've been trying to mentally cast that role for years, and it finally clicked and now I want a miniseries. (Dear Universe, please to be making this happen. Kthxbye.)
MM, K-bunny's t-shirt is the funniest thing I've seen in a LONG time.
MM - bwahahahahahahahahaha!!!! Priceless. And Teppy's so right about the t-shirt.