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.
More Breaking Dawn blather: From an interview with Meyer herself
Question: How was Bella's pregnancy possible? — Deep
Meyer: One of the longest things about this last year is that I've been reading all these quotes that people have been attributing to me that I never said. I had a rough draft of [this story] by the beginning of 2004, so before I ever did a tour or answered any questions or did an interview, I knew where the story was going. ... When people said, "Hey, can vampires have babies?" I always said no, because female vampires don't change at all, and it takes a lot of change for your body to accommodate a fetus, so it's not possible. But I never said anything about the part that I knew was coming. ... It is true ... there's a whole chromosomal-count difference, but venom works a lot of different ways, so for me, it always worked just fine.
Oh, well that explains it all
NOT
Oh, what horseshit.
"venom" is that what they're calling it these days?
