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This is why I love used books. My copy of Schopenhauer's collected essays has gone through 4 owners since 1914, all 4 of whom have signed and dated the front co
by noam87 9y ago
This is why I love used books. My copy of Schopenhauer's collected essays has gone through 4 owners since 1914, all 4 of whom have signed and dated the front cover, all of 4 of whom have marked and underlined at different spots (including, now, myself). My copy of Riverside Chaucer went through two students before me. And they all pick up their own unique scents along the way (my girlfriend jokes that I only buy books to smell them).
- appleiigs 9y agoI'm with you guys! This book has some serious character. The cover, handwriting, imperfections, and on top of it all, the writing style. The problem with used books tho is that sometimes I find hair. Ugh.
- kleiba 9y agoSo what? You remove the hair and read on.
- sebastianconcpt 9y agoMight be proof of DNA of a previous owner. Depending on the historical value that could be golden
- tmsldd 9y agoJust a side note, off topic: I was that king off person who had a shelf in my house with 300 printed books (and some more stored in boxes in the basement).. it was always a pain when I had to move to a new apartment! After the e-books and pdfs came by we got a lot of flexibility .. now it's easy to have 3000 volumes in the hard disk. You can literally carry a library with you.. I ended up giving away most of them, apart if some classics (e.g. The art of computer programming from Knuth, Operating Systems, from Tanenbaum, and some other classics for image processing..) The only thing I miss very much is that I loved the feeling of picking up one at random and expend a couple of hours ... I just can not have the same feeling with e-books.. :(
- sharun 9y agoVisit a good library. There are really great ones with lovely reading rooms still all over the place. Totally under used and under appreciated imho.