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fernweh · 07-10-2004, 01:18 PM

Just last week, I was reading a library book where someone had written notes in the margins. However, the book I was reading was about physics, and the vandal was pointing out factual errors with what the author was saying. In principle I'd say that it's wrong to write in a library book, but in this case it saved me a whole lot of trouble and confusion.

I've seen plenty of comments in margins that have been interesting; like, I was reading this postmodern philosophy book, and someone wrote in the margin "Turn to page 132-- Author says EXACT OPPOSITE of what he does here"... it was actually pretty insightful... and it was just one line, instead of a whole long rant, so the reader could just ignore it if they wanted to...

I do agree that this crosses the line, though, but it just goes to show there are no absolutes out there.

07-10-2004, 01:18 PM	#7 (permalink)
fernweh Crazy Location: San Francisco	Just last week, I was reading a library book where someone had written notes in the margins. However, the book I was reading was about physics, and the vandal was pointing out factual errors with what the author was saying. In principle I'd say that it's wrong to write in a library book, but in this case it saved me a whole lot of trouble and confusion. I've seen plenty of comments in margins that have been interesting; like, I was reading this postmodern philosophy book, and someone wrote in the margin "Turn to page 132-- Author says EXACT OPPOSITE of what he does here"... it was actually pretty insightful... and it was just one line, instead of a whole long rant, so the reader could just ignore it if they wanted to... I do agree that this crosses the line, though, but it just goes to show there are no absolutes out there. __________________ f-e-r-n-w-e-h is actually a gross misspelling of the name "gregory"