Got any good stories?
>>25332755not really
>>25332755Once I opened a book up in a thrift store, and a condom wrapper fell out of it.
Unrelated, but imagine being named Kevin and posting on r/redscarepod. What are we doing here, man?
>>25332880what was the book?
>>25332942Kid’s book. Store is now closed, it had one of “those” flags flying outside of it.
>>25332755The poster definitely drew that themselves for reddit karma
>>25332880Whenever I visit a bookstore I (if there's no staff nearby) leave opened condom wrappers in various romantasy or booktok books kek
>>25332880How did it taste?
When I bought my copy of Jünger's WW2 diaries, it turned out that the previous owner used some sort of French wine's label as a bookmark. It probably wasn't anything fancy but the text on it definitely was French, though.
>>25333080I find all kinds of things in books. If it's a nice bookmark, I add it to my collection, but if it's random shit I leave it where I found it.
>>25332755I'm surprised how many autographed copies I've gotten. They aren't huge names, but I have Wavy Gravy, Bob Newhart, Red Green, Pat Paulsen, and Tony Bennett on my bookshelf.
>>25332958Nazi flag? No wonder it closed down lmao.
Used copy of Rosemary's Baby came with massive piss stains.
>>25332755Got this note in a Jack Vance book recently. Following its advice, on the second one listed there now. Can’t say how I’ll feel about it until I’m finished though.
>>25333302>Red GreenI'm jealous.Bob Newhart is a pretty big name though.
>>25332755did you hear about the MAP camp? i found a copy of che gueveras guerilla warfare that belonged to the guy who tried to do it.
>>25332755Almost every used programming book I've gotten is dogeared and full of annotations. For the first ~40 pages anyway, then it's pristine. I've seen the same pattern with some philosophy books but it's especially strong for programming ones lol.
>>25334452i also found a four leaf clover in a copy of bleak house
I wish I would stumble upon hidden life lore in some used book. My life is so boring.
>>25332755I bought an Evangelion artbook that had a piece of somebody's Inuyasha fanart tucked inside. It was pretty nice art and was a gift for somebody, there was a message on the back.
>>25332755A 1980s pic in a copy of The Dancers at the End of Time; a group of old women. I took it to the shop in case the owner was still looking for it.
>>25332755Yeah, I borrowed a copy of Shakespeare's Sonnets from a university library. There was a printed page stuck to the back cover with an anonymous sonnet. Googling the words didn't turn anything up. I didn't write the poem down or take a photo of it, and when I remembered years later I checked every copy and couldn't find it.
>>25333447Cute cope.
>>25332755I bought a cookbook from a woman that had a printed photograph of her tween daughter.
How many books are really just memes in disguisehow advanced can memes become, can it become ideological and true, high comedy? Are chinese basketweaving memes better?
>>25332755whats the point of a used book? its already known
>>25334468That doesn't exist for the same way dungeons don't exist in real life. They would only benefit the reader and the second explorer respectively. The people who initially buy it have nothing to gain, and a dungeon that would be fun to explore wouldn't be useful to the actual builder.
>>25332755Had a 1945 print of Anna Karenina given to someone’s mother for christmas in1946. Last pages had a long annotation that went something like ”You brought it upon yourself and you deserved it, homewrecker and sinner, now your child is left motherless and destitute” (Paraphrased due to translating)Atleast she read it and seemed to enjoy it
>>25333495Nonsensical advice, Dying Earth/Mazirian was written during Vance's war service many decades before all of the others were published, particularly Cugel's Saga and Rhialto. Much of the stuff in it (like the so-called Vancian Magic) were essentially outdated by the later books, so it would read incongruously.
>>25332755I do. I was reading Kalle Päätalo's autobiographical series and in one volume he describes the time he was hospitalized after a suicide attempt. Someone had used a pen to annotate the library copy with a couple of interesting notes:>Impossible! There is no hallway like this thereand a name with a question mark after it, speculating on the identity of the psychiatrist who had been treating Päätalo.The person who made those annotations had likely been a patient in the same hospital. Neat.
>>25334471Do you still have it?
>>25336239You're better off going in the other direction where you understand memes to be a synonym for human fascination.
>>25332755My complete works of Edgar Allen Poe used to belong to a German POW who was in a camp in Crossville Tenseness. There's a stamp on the first page dating 10th of January 45And since I bought it here in Germany I'm assuming he took it back home after the war.
I bought a copy of Gravity's Rainbow where literally every page was either underlined or highlighted.I also bought a hardcover book, got about halfway through, and found a bee squashed between the pages.
>>25332755I've bought a paperback collection of La Recherche at my local thrift bookshop at a very low price. The first page of Du côté de chez Swann contained translations of vocabulary into my first language, written down with pencil. Not more advanced terms and phrases, mind you; the notes consisted of equivalents of: "Longtemps - for a long time" and "Je m’endors - I fall asleep", for example. Apparently the previous owner attempted to learn French by reading novels and decided to start with Proust of all things. It's hard not to admire the ambition, but the attempt seems to have borne no fruit. She (the handwriting was clearly feminine) gave up before reaching Charles V.
>>25332755I bought a used copy of infinite jest recently and about the first 30 pages were marked up with word definitions and references that the guy had looked up.I guess I'll never know if he gave up annotating and kept reading, or gave up on the whole thing altogether.
Probably not that interesting for most people here but I'm German and got this in my copy of Damnation Alley bought at a German book store so I thought it was neat.
>>25337192I hope this guy got something out of these courses...
>>25337194Well he didn't post it so I don't think so.
love getting used books and seeing which passages the previous authors underlined or bracketed. feels like I'm reading it together with a companero from across time
>>25336806Yes, I'd take a picture but I'm post-move and it's packed away somewhere. The character they drew was Sango
>>25334458This reminds me when I bought David Icke's book from a local flea market and it was full of schizo scribblings for the first 20 pages or so, but the rest seemed unread. Also some Plato book that I borrowed from library had annotation's how specific underlined sentences "prove" the existence of soul and some other ramblings of a lunatic
>>25337327The soul is real retard
>>25337327Plato did try to prove the existence (and pre existence) of soul thoughbeit
>>25337675He did _try_ to prove it. I'm not 100% convinced. >>25337389 This guy and the annotator schizo are the ones who are fucking sure about it
>>25337783>Everyone smarter than me is a schizoThe permanent refrain of the thirdworld brownoid generation
>>25337807I don't think that a guy scribbling nonesense to a library book is smarter than me. It's quite inconsiderate if you ask me
