How do you treat your books?

Are you the careful-type, trying not to fold pages, or are you that kind of person that writes notes, highlights words and whatnot?

I certainly use my books almost as if they were notepads - I underline, I highlight, I write notes and the books look really old within weeks.

What about you?

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I just read them. Never mark in them. Bent pages/binding and such

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i just read them, writing notes reminds me of my school days...
i do fold the pages to mark where i was last reading tho... no need for bookmarks

I don't go out of my way to take good care of them but I don't intentionally damage them by excessive bending or folding pages etc


I do put them in my backpack and if they take a little damage so be it but I don't make a fuss about it.


And I take notes on a sheet of paper. No point writing notes in the book especially if I really like it cause in that case it will mean I'm going to want to lend it to someone.



Newspapers and printed documents on the other hand I highlight take notes etc

depends on the book. if it is just for reading pleasure, then i just bend pages. if it is academic reading then i write notes, highlight, bend pages etc. it also depends on how much i paid for the academic book. if it is something i really liked and use it in the future i try to be a little more careful with it than a cheaper book.

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i read books, highlight, copy pictures, take notes. I never bend them, never tear pages, never scribble, never spill coffee. My books never look old. if i don't want them anymore, i throw them away in the recycle bin which gets emptied on a regular basis

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Originally posted by jdat I don't go out of my way to take good care of them but I don't intentionally damage them by excessive bending or folding pages etc I do put them in my backpack and if they take a little damage so be it but I don't make a fuss about it.

+1

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Originally posted by Omega_M i read books, highlight, copy pictures, take notes. I never bend them, never tear pages, never scribble, never spill coffee. My books never look old. if i don't want them anymore, i throw them away in the recycle bin which gets emptied on a regular basis

if you read a lot of books you might as well just sell them to second hand stores, especially since you keep good care of them.

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Taking notes in books sometimes is accidentally useful: a few professors of mine do it, and whenever they hand out copies of texts, the notes come as a bonus

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Originally posted by Psy-T if you read a lot of books you might as well just sell them to second hand stores, especially since you keep good care of them.

That's actually a very good idea for him.

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Originally posted by Psy-T if you read a lot of books you might as well just sell them to second hand stores, especially since you keep good care of them.

you guys missed my point. I was talking about ebooks

i do read lots of books and usually take care of them. But if they get worn a little bit i am tolerable to that. i don't scribble in books. Usually i'll write on blank pages and staple them together as notes. I used an engineering book for 1 semester which i knew i was gona sell afterwards. I took really good care of it and it still looks pretty new! I'm gona sell it on ebay or amazon for a decent price

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most books that i read get marked all over it and notes inside them. i never really liked note taking, buti find that if you copy your notes a couple of times then of course you learn the material better. usually i'll read through once quickly just to get a quick absorbtion of what i'm reading. then i'll try and write an outline from memory of what i read...then i'll re-read the material filling in important things that i hadn't made note of...then i type everything up formally. if you do that with things you read...you're gonna have such a good hold of the material...you should try it out if you don't do something similar already...