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>buy used book online
>is underlined 70% of the text of every page
why people do this? every time i see excessive underlining i automatically assume you’re low iq as hell and question the worth of such book. only people who underline are non readers

>> No.23278825

>>23278819
reading books that someone marked in is the most social interaction I get in my life

>> No.23278831

>frogposting

>> No.23278839

Who even underlines/highlight fiction? 'OMG, I really like that metaphor, better underline it. Wowzers, the narrator is describing a busy street, there goes my green marker.'

>> No.23278842

>>23278819
Never buy anything where the seller just has a stock image

>> No.23278845

>>23278839
i use post it notes for documenting literally me moments

>> No.23278857

>>23278839
This is unironically how my ex annotated her books.

>> No.23278891

>>23278839
It's performative. They think it makes them look studious or something.

If you like a line in a book, you just remember it, don't you?

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>>23278819
What, you dont?

>> No.23279808

>>23278819
i underline to know where i left off (i only read on kindle though)

>> No.23279831

>>23278839
I underlined the contents page because i will forgot the tile of the story I liek

>> No.23279897

>>23278819
only fedoras care about IQ

>> No.23279914

>>23279808
This. I used to work at a call center in college where I'd have to put my book down as soon as someone called, so it was easier to track where I was if I underlined. If something was really important, I put a star next to the line in the margins.

>> No.23280015

>>23278819
>browse books in second hand store
> first few pages are full of markings and underlinings, the rest are pristine
Seems like someone got filtered

>> No.23280534

I paid full RRP for three books from Amazon and, upon receipt of said books, I discovered that they were printed on demand by Amazon, and not, as it were, legitimate actual copies of the book from the publisher.
Is this common? I feel unreasonably pissed off about this.
Books were from the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library, so they're books people collect.

>> No.23280557

>Read The Denial of Death in pdf
>It was scanned from a physical book
>Whoever was reading it underlined it and made small notes in the margins
>It actually feels like I'm reading it with a friend
>Notes and underlining stops when the weird, non-sensical Freudian shit shows up
It was a based experience.

>> No.23280898

>>23278839
I do it for nonfiction to highlight the pivotal passages so I can look over it later and just read those for a refresher but I mostly do it by bracketing paragraphs because underlining is tedious and looks bad. I occasionally do it for fiction as well but then it’s only the most moving passages that I like to have bookmarked for if I want to look back for the specific wording or anything else. I am a habitual weed smoker though so if I don’t keep annotations in my books I usually forget the key portions.