>buy a used book >only the first chapter has notes

>buy a used book
>there's squashed bugs between the pages

>>8792834
>don't finish a book
>underline some shit and dogear pages in the last half so if someone comes across it when I'm dead they won't think I'm a quitter pleb

learned this after going through muh grandpa's books after he died, he fucking never completed them, always quit like halfway in.

>>8792834
>buy a used copy of Consider Phlebas for £3
>Find a £5 note used as a bookmark.

mfw when literature has made me more money than the average aspiring author on this forum.

>>8792834
>Buy a used book
>Inside, there's a photo of a fat dude dressed as a mariachi

>buy a used book online
>wine voucher inside

Every time.

>buy book
>theres a dedicatory on it

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>>8792834
>Buy a book
>Every time the author's name appears on the inside, it's translated.

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iktf, pic related

>buy The Book of Disquiet used
>the person left a card for AA inside as a bookmark

>buy a used textbook
>pictures of color-ins

The fuck? What kid reads calculus textbooks and color ins Garfield drawings?

>buy a used book
>it smells like a pretty girls hair

>>8792834
>Buy a used book
>Has a giant tomato sauce smear across it

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>buy a used book while stupid enough to not check the pages
>lines under every "complicated" word
>for example: insufficient, abominably, adhered
>mfw it's probably straight out of a elementary school's English class

>>8793186
:(

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>buy a book
>death approaches anyway

>>8792834
>buy a used copy of A Confederacy of Dunces
>first page has an inscription saying I can't wait for your 7 inches tonight xox

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>Borrow Blood Meridian from aunt.
>Drink coaster from irish pub as bookmark

>Buy lost in the funhouse marked as used - good
>underlined every other sentence, every margin scribbled with notes
>complain, get sent another version which is like new

feelsgood

>>8792834
>buy a used book
>nearly 2 whole chapters have cut pages
>borrow book from the library
>it's been borrowed several times over the years
>shit you not, no cut pages

>buy a used book
>carefully peel out a million price stickers on the cover
>last one rip the whole spine off

>buy a used book
>there is a 4 leaf clover half way through

Noice

Also
>own a book
>bad habit of biting skin around nails
>accidentally smear blood all over the page
>one day someone will find it and wonder wtf happened

>>8794134
Leave a note inside the cover mentioing that you have AIDs

>>8792834
>buy used book for like 5 cents
>it was grapes of wrath, very battered, yellowed pages
>discover that every available pocket of empty space has been filled with notes
>they don't appear to be in chronological order but are coherent
>try to ignore them at first but pay more attention as certain phrases stick out to me
>eventually become more engrossed in reading and organizing the notes than the book itself

>buy a used book
>dedication ends with "love, X - 1935"
>realize these people are quite likely dead now

Kinda sad desu

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>>8792834
>reading very old book my dead grandma used in school
>looking at the notes she left as a young girl

>>8794134
what is the four leaf clover reference?

>>8794211
It was a literal four leaf clover pressed between the pages.

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>>8794211

>>8794402
nice reference

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>buy used book for a few dollars
>it's 100+ years old
>has used bookstore stickers on it
>peel them off
>they all come off perfectl

>>8794211
4chan

>>8792834
>buy a used book
>only notes the person had were TRUE!!! at the lines they liked

>>8792857
kekked

>>8792834
Basically every used book I've bought.

>buy a used book
>turns out it carries a terrible curse

>>8794179
A strange feeling friend

>>8795442
>buy an used book
>it was cursed so know I am racist

>>8794179
This happened to me with my Nana's copy of Plato's Republic ;_;

>>8794043
or it was read by a non-native speaker

>>8794078

I use napkins from my local cafe as bookmarks sometimes.

Not used of course.

>>8792834

>Borrow Hunger by Hamsun from library
>several paragraph stream-of-consciousness concerning his hunger pangs illustrating the fragility of his sanity in godlike prose
>entire thing underlined
>note in margin
>"he is hungry"