Posted by badhaircut on May 26, 2005, at 7:20:50
In reply to Do you -- Gasp! -- write in your books?, posted by Minnie-Haha on May 25, 2005, at 21:43:53
Yes! But as Alexandra says, in pencil so future owners can erase them. (Or I can if I go to re-sell them.)
I put proofreader's marks throughout. I admit this is nuts. For whose benefit are these marks?!
I put cross-references. These *are* helpful. And I add entries to the index in the back.
I highlight the page-edges along one side of some reference books in various colors for different chapters so I can flip to them easily.
And I label the spines with stickers that have the year of first publication. This makes it much easier to shelve a bunch from the same author/subject.
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