/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.20009107]

>buy a used book
>get to see the last owners notes
It’s a strangely nice feeling

[Anonymous No.20009108]

Ok homo

[Anonymous No.20009113]

>>20009107
The cat could kill an apu that size.

[Anonymous No.20009154]

>>20009113
Why are Apus so short?

[Anonymous No.20009173]

>>20009154
They're normally not that small.

[Anonymous No.20009212]

>>20009107
>cum inside a book
>give it to a used book store
/R A S C A L/core

[Anonymous No.20009227]

>>20009107
>buy a used copy of the critique of pure reason
>comes with a note from the seller
>”thanks for your purchase. all proceeds go towards the mental health charity CALM in memory of my son who committed suicide”
Turns out the truth won’t set you free.

[Anonymous No.20009229]

>>20009107
Is this a common occurrence? Should I start shopping at used book stores?
t. used a nook to read for the past few years but recently started buying physical books and taking notes as I read

[Anonymous No.20009242]

I was taking notes in books i borrowed from public library all the time. Now i dont do it, because i actually buy own books and some of them may grow in value in future

[Anonymous No.20009314]

>>20009227

Sad but I was wondering if the dad realized how ironic it is that Kant was against suicide.

[Anonymous No.20009331]

>>20009314
Seems like the seller was just selling off their son’s old academic texts and didn’t actually know anything about the books or philosophers themselves (especially considering how little I paid for it). I think the irony was definitely lost on them

[Anonymous No.20009340]

>>20009107
I love this feeling

[Anonymous No.20009345]

I bought a copy of finnegans wake at my local used bookstore and these were the notes

[Anonymous No.20009365]

>>20009345
>that pic
Based schizo

[Anonymous No.20009397]

>>20009107
Got a used copy of Jane Austens Sense and Sensibility and there are plenty of notes inside. It’s strange, feels like I’m rummaging through someone else’s thoughts, doubt they thought anyone else would be reading them while they were writing the notes.

[Anonymous No.20009409]

>>20009345
this is amazingly cool, moar pls?

[Anonymous No.20009413]

>look thru the last owner's notes
>he was a complete brainlet

[Anonymous No.20009416]

>look thru the last owner's notes
>he was a complete brainlet

[Anonymous No.20009418]

>>20009413
>tfw you were the last owner of the book

[Anonymous No.20009419]

>>20009397
>women

[Anonymous No.20009428]

>>20009107
once i got a book that had clearly belonged to some female an*me fan. she wrote a bunch of notes and drew her character/avatar/whatever reacting some phrases and the plot twist and all that. it was kind of amusing but otakus are disgusting. the book, predictably, hard a weird smell to it too.

[Anonymous No.20009568]

>>20009340
A lot of women seen to annotate this way. I recently bought a Vonnegut book with similar notes

[Anonymous No.20009574]

>>20009568
There was also some guy's phone number used as a bookmark

[Anonymous No.20009598]

>>20009212
>Wait a second...
>Anon, did you ejaculate in this book?
>Margaret, call the police

[Anonymous No.20009609]

I have a book from 1886 with the owner's name pencilled in the front alongside the date, 1888. Did they even have pencils back then? Doesn't seem right... Anyway the guy's circled one passage and wrote Nonsense! beside it.

[Anonymous No.20009621]

>>20009609
What book was it?

[Anonymous No.20009641]

>>20009621
a glossary for Robert Burns

[Anonymous No.20009646]

>>20009212
That is a retarded way to do it. you gotta cum on a container and thinly smear the pages with it so it's less obvious and it still gets imbued with your cum. Be sure to mix a little bit of water in to thin it out so it's clumps less

[Anonymous No.20009676]

I found a signed Rush Limbaugh book once, just sitting on the shelf. Picked that up.

[Anonymous No.20009750]

>>20009107
People who write in books deserve to be shot.

[Anonymous No.20009785]

>>20009107
>take a book out from the library
>find some dried flowers pressed into the pages, presumably once used as a bookmark
It was unironically one of the most wholesome experiences I’ve ever had in a library

[Anonymous No.20009787]

inserts always make me feel sad, i don't know why.

[Anonymous No.20009790]

>>20009345
This is awesome, it’s almost an artistic expression of a persons mind as they read

[Anonymous No.20009859]

>>20009345
Unironically schizo

[Anonymous No.20009904]

>>20009859
appropriate demographics to really appreciate Finnegans Wake

[Anonymous No.20009938]

is buying used books better than buying new ones? I got a copy of Brothers Karamazov for 8 dollars but it is from the '70s and has a weak paperback cover, will that cause any problems when/after I read it?

[Anonymous No.20009950]

>>20009938
books can last a long time if you aren't retarded.

[Anonymous No.20010076]

>>20009331
It’s probably for the best that he didn’t know much about Kant, and yet somehow that’s even more depressing.

[Anonymous No.20010082]

>>20009345
Post high-rez version so we can properly read the schitzo notes please

[Anonymous No.20010087]

>>20009787
Because someone cared enough for another to buy them a book they thought would be appreciated and meaningful and now that book is in your possession, completely removed from their tenderness and relationship. It got there by being sold, a display of affection become commercialism. Who sold it? Who stole it? Who died? No answers, just questions haunting your reading.

[Anonymous No.20010109]

>>20010087
:(

[Anonymous No.20010112]

>>20009938
You can usually find cheap cheap used books at thrift stores,flea markets, and yard sales but it's a mixed bag. Like 50 cents for a hard cover book cheap. You can also buy used books on amazon for a bit of a discount from third party sellers.

[Anonymous No.20010131]

>>20009107
>go to a thrift store
>find a very ornate piece of artwork
>it’s a paper-cut collage of a stallion, rearing in its hind legs and masterfully rendered in Hellenistic motion-in-time style
>the creator included a hand-written note thanking the buyer, and goes into detail about all their dreams fo becoming a full-time artist and how they’ve helped to make that possible
>it’s being sold on a dark back shelf of a rundown basement store for 2 dollars

It was genuinely beautiful and someone put their heart and soul into that thing

[Anonymous No.20010141]

>>20010087
my dream is to find one with my name so i can pretend someone would buy a book for me

[Anonymous No.20010171]

>>20009340
I hate those unfunny millennial notes.

[Anonymous No.20010188]

>>20010131
My biggest fear is going into a thrift store at the end of my life and seeing one of my books wedged in the corner and being sold for a quarter.

[Anonymous No.20010205]

>>20010188
Many great books are sold for a quarter

[Anonymous No.20010592]

>>20010131
Name of artist please

[Anonymous No.20010715]

>buy used Saramago book
>there is an small sticker in one of the pages that reads "femanon's best frend"
>anons wrote beside it "you lying bitch"

[Anonymous No.20011502]

>>20010131
Plenty of great, accomplished artists and authors end up with some of their work in thrift stores.
You can find fucking Dostoyevsky books in thrift shops. It doesn’t mean anything.

[Anonymous No.20011513]

>>20009154
cat is big

[Anonymous No.20011526]

>go to charity store
>find complete series of a book series available
>each volume looks like they've been unread but have the exact same damage to the back cover
Was a bit strange, I definitely prefer unmarked used books over marked ones even though I used to feel differently

[Anonymous No.20011682]

>>20009345
That's what my Simulamcra and Simulation book looks like

[Anonymous No.20011720]

>>20009107
>Original copy of The Godfather
>note from 1969 says its an amazing read
>it is
Fucking spoiling asshole.

[Anonymous No.20011733]

>>20011720
I chuckled

[Anonymous No.20011779]

>>20009345
Hoy based

[Anonymous No.20011918]

>>20009107
Never found a single note that was worth my time reading it.

[Anonymous No.20012009]

>>20009154
They get taller as they get older. Since Apus are biologically immortal they can grow thousands of feet tall. There is a Rothschild holding facility underground in Wyoming for this exact purpose.

[Anonymous No.20012028]

I got a early 1960s Plato symposium which a woman had evidently used at University.
Inside were bus tickets to and from the University, a letter from her mother and a few stamps which had been clipped from envelopes.
I couldn't bring myself to read it instead I've kept it as a monument to woman I never knew.
I imagine different scenarios of how her life may have played out from that point.
I hope life was kind to her.

[Anonymous No.20012034]

>>20012028
Based weirdo

[Anonymous No.20012040]

>>20009340
>implying she didn't write that in for the socials

[Anonymous No.20012110]

>>20009787
This one made me sad.

[Anonymous No.20012409]

>>20012028
describe smell

[Anonymous No.20012459]

>>20009107
This was written in a signet classic containing Conrad's Heart Of Darkness & Secret Sharer. One has to wonder, did the recipient of this work ever read it? Or did it just collect dust on in some box in a lonely attic? Cozy, but also accompanied with a dull and numb feeling of sadness.

[Anonymous No.20012705]

note on the margin is nothing but a woman writing why

[Anonymous No.20012763]

>>20009345
bought a bible once that was noted like this. fucking love shizo notes lmao

[Anonymous No.20012803]

>>20012028
Life isn’t kind to anyone.

[Anonymous No.20012859]

>>20009397
Cute :)

[Anonymous No.20012937]

>>20009107
Studying the notes in used books greatly increased my comprehension, especially realizing that the reason so many books with notes in them only have notes in the first 50-100 pages is not because that is where they stopped reading.

[Anonymous No.20012972]

>>20012937
what reason is that? for me i usually write less notes as i begin to understand the book more. my notes have also gotten more and more abstract, i try to use symbols to convey ideas over writing little blurbs of schizo input. makes it harder for others to understand i guess but ive stopped caring for others

[Anonymous No.20013015]

>>20012972
Essentially what you said.

Most authors layout what is important to read for in the book in the first part of the book, they layout the structure and how they are going to give you the important information. Once you identify this the rest is easy and any notes after are purely for personal use, not about identifying the authors intent with the work. A good number of people who write notes in books (almost all of those who stop after 50-100 pages) are just taking notes to identify these things, they are looking for those patterns and once they are found there is no longer a need to make those notes.

Most notes are not schizo blurbs or anything, just underlining and a word or two or perhaps a question mark. Question marks a very common in my experience, they generally do not signify a lack of understanding, but are asking the question of if this underlined bit is important. It is also very common to see that the most heavy note taking is in that first dozen pages, they are just identifying possible themes, in the next few pages they narrow it down and find those ones which are important to the work.

[Anonymous No.20013053]

>>20009107
>check out book from the library
>it's the first English edition from 1968
>it's been checked out twice in that entire time, most recently in 1984
>it's beautifully bound and in immaculate condition
It took every ounce of willpower I had to return this

[Anonymous No.20013074]

>>20013053
Unless the book is heavily used for in library reference by patrons than they probably would have just sold it to you if you asked. A book only checked out twice in all those years has most likely not been culled from the shelves because libraries using that sort of old fashioned checkout with the date stamped in the book cull books after they get returned and they see no one has been checking it out. Good chance after you returned it it was marked for the next sale or the free bin.

[Anonymous No.20013213]

>>20009107
>buy used book listed as excellent condition
>heavy underlining from previous owner in random pages

[Anonymous No.20013293]

>>20013074
Free library books are the best. Getting hardcover, old editions of shit for free is amazing. Remember I would go back for seconds and hoard all the knowledge away

[Anonymous No.20013611]

>>20012040
Turns out she didn't