Posted by Minnie-Haha on May 26, 2005, at 9:24:39
In reply to Re: Do you -- Gasp! -- write in your books?, posted by daisym on May 26, 2005, at 0:50:10
> Gasp!!! NEVER.
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> Learned early and well in Catholic schools -- NEVER, EVER write in your books!! (Ok, you put your name in them. And you should write a note on the title page if you give a book as a gift...)
>
> I struggled in college with highlighting text books even.
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> shudder, shake, shake.Yes. That's exactly how I used to be. But that professor I liked really changed my mind. I felt so liberated, because in the past I would think something, and I knew I couldn't write it in the book... and there would go my thought. (I guess I could have started up some external note system, but that seemed like a PROJECT.)
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