"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 22:54:40 -0600, barbie gee >
> wrote:
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>> and if you can't bear to write in the book, stick a post-it note on the
>> page and make a note there.
>
> I'm the Post-It Note type because I was too well trained in elementary
> school to mark up a book on purpose.

I bought a used book online and the person who owned it before, marked it
all up with a pen, underlining things, putting exclamation points and
writing words. I wish the seller would have disclosed this. It was rather
distracting.