[Quiet Man Cometh]

I would be inclined to do it more with art and poety books or novels rather than number stuff, depending on the project. I would like working with the passages and text themselves, though if we're talking only a word or two here and there, then I guess the book doesn't really matter. I would definately feel better about it if it was a trashed copy to begin with, or I had another.

Certain old books, like old dictionaries or old anthologies I would be hesitant to mess with because they can contain stuff that is no longer around. I keep many of our outdated dictionaries becaue they often contain words that current dictionairies no longer have. The same goes for early volume lit or poetry anthologies, which contain different poems than the new ones, often by the same author. It gives a greater view of the work, in my opinion.