I think my favorite thing about second hand books is all the little scribbles and notes that are left behind by the previous reader

I used to be staunchly anti-marking, I couldn& #39;t stand even the littlest pencil line on a page. studying literature forced me into the habit of writing in the margins and now I absolutely love it

even as precious as I was with my books, I took them with me EVERYWHERE. I& #39;d get pasta sauce on the pages, water spots on the dust jacket. some of my books still smell like hit chocolate when you hit the right chapter.

Now I leave myself notes in all of my books. For a later reread, or maybe for whoever gets the books after me, a discovery of where the story took me

this thread was brought to you by my term paper reading, where I came across some lovely secondhand pencil work