Does anyone ever look for these when buying their 2nd hand books?
Or is it more of an (un)pleasant surprise?
Sometimes they can be pretty interesting. I always wonder what sort of people write these things, and to whom - if anyone. Perhaps they add them specifically for the purpose of selling/donating them to 2nd hand bookshops, for future readers; I've never done it, personally.
>>8187264
>2016
>Being poor
Sorry, I buy all my books brand new.
>>8187264
Nice handwriting, shame it was used to write platitudes.
>>8187286
>paying 3 or 4 times the price for an object that is identical in function and serves no aesthetic purpose that you probably won't read and throw away/sell at the end of the year anyway
You're more likely to be poor, rich people don't throw away money and stay rich
>>8187310
That's what poor people tell themselves.
Us rich people have money to burn.
>>8187310
>rich people don't throw away money
is that what poor people think? dude, go out and meet people. you have no idea.
>>8187302
I liked "Fateful originality."
Reminded me of what Schopenhauer had to say.
It's the greatest thing.
>>8187264
They might be vaguely interesting as a curiosity, but they get in the way of actual reading.
>>8187361
What a fucking mess.
>>8187361
basically just a window into psychosis
>>8187490
Nah, it's Finnegans Wake.
That's the amount of notes you'd need on average to dissect that piece of shit.
>>8187490
Yeah, and isn't it glorious.
The mentally ill are the most untapped source of genius.
>>8187536
if that's what Joyce intended why didn't he include more space in the margins and maybe space the lines a little more generously
Yeah I love it, its cool seeing other peoples interpretations of things.
Last time I was at the bookstore I picked up a copy of something, the first page has so writing. Its a dedication, a gift, from a guy to who i assumed was his gf/wife something.
General gist was how he loved her and wanted to give her this book so she gains some knowledge of whatever. Pretty cute. Then i realize that she sold it to this place. :(
>Walter Kaufmann translation.
You poor little lamb.
>>8187614
He's the best for all of Nietzsche's stuff, pleb.
Good for Goethe too, save for abridging Part II like an idiot.
>>8187624
>He's the best for all of Nietzsche's stuff
I will tell you now not to reply to this because I don't want you to dig yourself a hole you can't escape from, but he's objectively the worst translator of Nietzsche's works. See Mencken, Ludovici (disregarding the minor typographic mistakes) or even Hollingdale for a better translator.
Kaufmann was a professional sanitiser of Neetch.
>>8187587
are you blind, there's an obscene amount of space on that page for notes.
>>8187631
[Citation Needed]
Kaufmann is constantly cited as the go-to German translator on /lit/, and with good reason.
>>8187264
I love it. I love snapshots of other people's lives. Annotations, photos, even a birth certificate I found. I don't find them often though...
>>8187286
Old money has old books, and doesn't buy much.
>>8187264
I live for the annotations of strangers. Especially when you can tell that they weren't for a class, and were just the notes of someone reading it. There's something really interesting and comforting about reading the personal thoughts of a person that I'll never know, it's like a time capsule or a mystery or something. I love it
