[Quiet Man Cometh]

Yeah but these books are the kind that even the libraries wont take. We're talking on their last strings of tacky binding here, if there's a cover left to speak of at all, with pages that are probably only half-glued in. You could consider it mercy killing ;).

I write in my college texts. It's almost a right of passage in a way, but I'm still picky about mangled pages. My copy of Hamlet has passages that are coated in a couple different colours of pen and three different colours of highlighter depending on what it was I was looking for at the time. Same goes for some of my poetry anthologies. My book of poetry by Percey Shelley actually used to be my dad's when he was at university so it has two generations of notes in it in pencil and pen. I find that neat actually.