What's wrong with buying used books?

what's wrong with buying used books?

yo is that the new feminist translation of the odyssey or whatever?

I might pay more for a book annotated by a smart person

This is probably not a used book, because as noticed this is a recent edition of The Odyssey. I bet this is a collection of pictures taken by a MRA guy trying to take down a female translator for one epic honeypot of upvotes on reddit.

uwot

Holy shit that’s an ugly colored ink

>Constructing a weird imagined narrative reality in which the damn NECKBEARDS are totally PATHETIC, and subsequently sperging out about it, from a couple random details and presumptions
holy shit, get help user

nothing. it's great. good books for $1.00 or less? what's not to like?

No, the first line of that translation has "complicated man" instead of "a man of twists and turns."

If you buy them in person nothing. Just flip through the pages first. I go to a thrift store near me that has a "buy 4 get one free" deal all the time.

Before I moved there was a hole in the wall that had a huge selection and no one ever bought the books so the owner sold them to me for .99 cents a peice. I bought a lot of trash randomly but I got some good books out of it too.

I always buy "like new" or similar and have never had a problem.

Never let someone else's notes guide you, unless you know whose they are.

You buy used books at a halfprice books on the clearance shelf or from Goodwill, not over the damn internet where you can’t even look at them before you purchase.

This. Terms like "Like New" or "Used - Good" are relative.

wait.
really?

Yes
>Tell me about a complicated man.
>Muse, tell me how he wandered and was lost
>when he had wrecked the holy town of Troy,
>and where he went, and who he met, the pain
>he suffered in the storms at sea, and how
>he worked to save his life and bring his men
>back home. He failed to keep them safe; poor fools,
>they ate the Sun God’s cattle, and the god
>kept them from home. Now goddess, child of Zeus,
>tell the old story for our modern times.
>Find the beginning.

I've bought around 50 used books online, never had a problem aside from one book having pencil writing and underlining.
Got a full refund on that one cause the condition didn't match.

Some sellers will have a short description of the quality which mentions whether the book is annotated, has a cracked spine or whatever else.

Its crazy how much the story differs depending on the translation. This is my one by E.V Rieu published by Penguin Classics

ooh controversy

Nothing, finding scribbles notes is comfy as fuck

>that was short

This reminded me of my mom when she started reading Shakespeare to try and identify with my autistic-ass.

;-;

miss u mom

>prose translation
there's your problem

I have an old copy of
Alice in wonderland with notes by someone trying to write a children's story and noting the best parts and why they were good.

It's quite nice and I decided to add my own notes

>after the Trojan war
Mother of God...

here's chapter 2

>No there isn't
I died.

the first book is in issue 221 of Paris Review if u got access to an archive

>Anything but the Fagles translation

Why.

>Buying new books

>Anything but Fitzgerald or Pope

user.. easy on being wrong

did she die user?

Honestly this obliviousness is endearing, I wish I could read it like that

>Buy a Robert Fisk book
>Signed by the author, "to Geoff"

>Buy a book John Donne's poetry
>It's dedicated
>"To Rick, from your friend, Su"
Sounds like Rick hit the freindzone pretty hard.

Found this in my local store

>pages 1-10 are heavily annotated with tons of underlined phrases and question marks
>20 pages in the reader has given up and there's not a single mark on the page from then on
Every. Single. Time.

this has to be fake

This. The only person more pathetic than the MRAs is the guy who made this scenario up. It isn't even the "female" edition.

...

This is like a 12-year-old or something.

>No there isn't

Holy shit please post more, or does it end there?

This has to be a kid. No adult would do this. No adult would do this.

>It's quite nice and I decided to add my own notes
I hope you sold it or gave it away afterwards for the next person to add to. Sell it to me. I'd really like to write children's books.

This. I'll only buy books new if the author is still alive and I like him