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It's a collection of stories by Dennis Wheatley. Most of his stories deal with possession, the devil, etc. No idea why that had to be hidden. sweatdrop

I strongly dislike writings of any kind in my books. I like to keep them in mint condition. I'm OCD like that I suppose.
If someone were to write in one of MY books they can guarantee they'll never be allowed to borrow a book again.

I've never been one to write in my own books, and I am sometimes the sort to pull out an eraser and try to clean up a book that has writing in it. Highlighting in textbooks is the one thing I will do, and it doesn't bother me if others have done that. Novels though, I can't even think about marking up. We were encouraged to mark our books in high school English, and I always got around it by using book darts, which my uncle gave me for Christmas one year.

The French class that I am currently taking is a reading course, and we are studying a novel. I bought a fancy little journal especially for taking notes and making translations of important passages. The other day in class I saw the girl next to me scribbling notes in pencil in the margins, and I admit I felt a little twinge of pity for the book, then I looked at the girl behind her, and nearly gasped out loud. She was highlighting, underlining and writing notes in the novel, all in red pen. I nearly went into some kind of OCD shock. I could never do that to a book.

In red pen? eek

I bought a Japanese textbook second hand and somebody had been answering the questions in the back. In pen.

Luckily it was only a few questions from the first lesson, but it really annoyed. Especially as one of the answers was wrong. stare

I only ever write in my textbooks if it's to connect a mistake in the text. Notes are something I make in notebooks.

I only write notes in books that I have to study, and in some books there's hardly any blank space left cause of all the notes lol! But I hate it when I visit the university library and people have made notes in books...it's defacing the book and I don't like it. When I make notes I do it on a seperate piece of paper or photocopy it.

I can't say I've ever written anything in a book before...I've highlighted key phrases and stuff from non fiction books I own so that I don't have to go hunting for the details when I look back in them but I guess I feel dirty writing in books. Like I'm doing something unholy, against the books gods or something.

However, I do love it when I pick up a secondhand book or rent something from the library and I find something written in it by a previous reader. It feels like I'm looking into some stranger's diary of their thoughts....personal.

One time I rented this Douglas Adams book and the margins where filled with little comments about his style of humor that just made me laugh out loud when I read them. Things like "Nice line Doug." and "Do you kiss your mom with that mouth?" Ha! I almost wanted to keep that book and now whenever I read Douglas Adams I think about that unknown stranger with a sense of humor.

I've only ever written in math books because I'm too lazy to get out paper(it's just small things, and I don't do it often, so I don't really get in the way of other peoples' learning.) I also highlighted my history book once, but that was because I didn't want to read it so I was just looking up the topics that would be on the quiz in the index and highlighting the sentences.

When I order used books online, though, I go out of my way to try to get a book that's marked and/or highlighted. There's just something about reading someone else's notes.