Does anyone ever look for these when buying their 2nd hand books?
Or is it more of an (un)pleasant surprise?
Sometimes they can be pretty interesting. I always wonder what sort of people write these things, and to whom - if anyone. Perhaps they add them specifically for the purpose of selling/donating them to 2nd hand bookshops, for future readers; I've never done it, personally.
Joshua Martinez
>2016 >Being poor
Sorry, I buy all my books brand new.
Jordan Jones
Nice handwriting, shame it was used to write platitudes.
Tyler Bailey
>paying 3 or 4 times the price for an object that is identical in function and serves no aesthetic purpose that you probably won't read and throw away/sell at the end of the year anyway
You're more likely to be poor, rich people don't throw away money and stay rich
Samuel Rivera
That's what poor people tell themselves.
Us rich people have money to burn.
Zachary Thomas
>rich people don't throw away money
is that what poor people think? dude, go out and meet people. you have no idea.
Nicholas Gonzalez
I liked "Fateful originality."
Reminded me of what Schopenhauer had to say.
Jordan Lee
It's the greatest thing.
Matthew Wright
They might be vaguely interesting as a curiosity, but they get in the way of actual reading.
Angel Thomas
What a fucking mess.
Julian Hernandez
basically just a window into psychosis
Brandon Robinson
Nah, it's Finnegans Wake.
That's the amount of notes you'd need on average to dissect that piece of shit.
Leo Sullivan
Yeah, and isn't it glorious. The mentally ill are the most untapped source of genius.
Connor Myers
if that's what Joyce intended why didn't he include more space in the margins and maybe space the lines a little more generously
Benjamin Adams
Yeah I love it, its cool seeing other peoples interpretations of things.
Last time I was at the bookstore I picked up a copy of something, the first page has so writing. Its a dedication, a gift, from a guy to who i assumed was his gf/wife something. General gist was how he loved her and wanted to give her this book so she gains some knowledge of whatever. Pretty cute. Then i realize that she sold it to this place. :(
Kayden Diaz
>Walter Kaufmann translation.
You poor little lamb.
Jordan Johnson
He's the best for all of Nietzsche's stuff, pleb.
Good for Goethe too, save for abridging Part II like an idiot.
Jackson Lee
>He's the best for all of Nietzsche's stuff
I will tell you now not to reply to this because I don't want you to dig yourself a hole you can't escape from, but he's objectively the worst translator of Nietzsche's works. See Mencken, Ludovici (disregarding the minor typographic mistakes) or even Hollingdale for a better translator.
Kaufmann was a professional sanitiser of Neetch.
Jack Diaz
are you blind, there's an obscene amount of space on that page for notes.
Jose Howard
[Citation Needed]
Kaufmann is constantly cited as the go-to German translator on Veeky Forums, and with good reason.
Samuel Lewis
I love it. I love snapshots of other people's lives. Annotations, photos, even a birth certificate I found. I don't find them often though...
Jaxon Davis
Old money has old books, and doesn't buy much.
James Garcia
I live for the annotations of strangers. Especially when you can tell that they weren't for a class, and were just the notes of someone reading it. There's something really interesting and comforting about reading the personal thoughts of a person that I'll never know, it's like a time capsule or a mystery or something. I love it