Stop marking up library books you selfish fucks. Can’t you study without making the book painful to read for everyone afterwards? Did the fumes from your beloved highlighter give you brain damage? If you’re one of these people who underline, highlight, or write your inane little thoughts in the margins, I hope you get carpal tunnel syndrome.
Believe it or not, it’s much easier to organize your thoughts in your own fucking words on your OWN FUCKING PAPER than making your source material look like some sort of idiot crossword puzzle. —Your Study Buddy
This article appears in Jan 5-11, 2012.
I agree…..
Though, I AM guilty of putting marks beside parts of books I wanted to quote/paraphrase, etc… when I was writing research papers, but only ever in pencil and only ever very lightly. I would never fold the corner over, though. I HATE that. I just used some post-it flags to mark my pages and when I’d bring my books back I’d end up spending forever removing all the flags. 😛
People who highlight library books with pen or a highlighter need to get bent.
I write margin notes in books (both my own and from the library) but it is done to annotate, elucidate or point out an error and is *always* done in pencil.
Kilroy was here.
I didn’t even mark in books when I WAS going to school…
pristine condition FTW.
I HATE IT when people mark up books…
major peeve of mine.
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I used to highlight some of my text books when I was at Acadia because I was in arts and the material, usually in the upper years, was very dense and there was a lot of books that said in 300 pages what they could’ve said in 5.
When I took professional studies, I found I didn’t have to because the material wasn’t as thick. I just set my book up and took a few notes on my computer. Printed them off and went forth with my ‘study technique.’
Take it from one who knows, kiddies. If you’re planning on selling your books to help defray the costs of your end-of-term piss-up and window smashing spree; they’d best not resemble the yellow streaked snowbank outside an Occupy encampment.
And scribbling on ANYTHING that is not yours is always the mark of an industrial sized enema bag.
Nah-pencil margin writing is nothing compared to ‘dog-earing’ —that does real damage—as does cellophane tape to a book. And, of course, highlighting.
The problem with highlighters is twofold: it’s not only a visual affront, but the holder of the highlighter always seems to think that 90% of the text is worth highlighting.
Spine-crackers deserve payment in kind. That is all.
Ralph, I’d click like on that comment a hundred times over if I could….
Damn, do you know how fresh and clean you’d feel after an industrial-sized enema, Ralph? I reckon you’d feel light as air!
As light as Sebaceous after one of these:
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shawshanked it’s way through his lower G.I. tract.
Courage, Lemmiwinks.
But how else will everyone know how awesome and smart they are when they’re done reading the book in public? Write a blog or something? That’s sooo mainstream.
People seriously mark up library books?!? I used to underline, highlight and make margin notes in my own text books … but never a book that I didn’t own. If the content of a library book was that important and it was reasonable to do so, I’d copy the relevant pages and make notes as necessary.
Around here, it’s done often in library books…course this little valley ‘does not skew normal’ to quote a demographics expert, but it’s not unlike Halifax, I think.
In thinking back to last summer, there was one book I wanted to underline and annotate so badly, I bought a copy so I could scribble to my heart’s content…☺
they just be underlining the good parts, so the next knob will know what they are. andnot bother reading the whole fucking tome.
If you’re going to write in library books, just do it in light pencil and erase it before you bring it back (and just mark the beginning and end of phrases with a faint mark). If you have to makes notes on the passages, get post its. They’re great for shit like that. You can even remove the post its and put it on a wall to organize your ideas (just make sure you write down the book/source if it’s not a book and the appropriate page numbers if necessary). It makes paper writing A LOT easier. I always used this method and I always got great marks.
OB, is that the biggest concern you have….the notes people put in books?
For all you educated book markers…there is a noninvasive way to mark a book & leave nothing behind when you are done.
OR
If you don’t bother, the next person could remove them & no damage, no faint line etc.
http://www.leevalley.com/en/garden/page.as…
they started that company out of their basement, more. we lived next door to them when i was a kid. i love some of their products