@ossobuco,
ossobuco wrote:I will, but only if you promise to buy them from the used section.
This is not only that I am cheap, but that I am a big fan of moving pre-read books around,
and then around again. I don't care much how tattered a book is when I get ahold of it.
I like a book with patina.
I will usually patina it more.
Please be assured that I will not present u with a bill. The books will come from good will,
in the spirit of Will Rogers.
ossobuco wrote:I can imagine you won't agree to this, David, which I'd understand.
Over the years n decades, it has been my practice to fund a private lending library of books
of concern to me, and also to give away some of those books
to people who I thawt shoud have them.
Before doing so, thay became
"used" in the sense that
I applied a system of hierarchical markings with
colored ink
to bring out portions of the text that I deemed to be of singular importance -- i.e., the reasons for those gifts,
in circulating that information.
It was my vu that I
elevated n
enhanced the value of those books
by marking their more significant aspects.
When I was in law school, I applied this technique with singular dedication;
it worked well. It might take me, for instance,
a day to read a statute fully thru, marking its most significant
language in
colored ink, with a series of symbols
e.g., straight vertical line, or curved ( or square bracket [ or French brace { and colored stars
*
to indicate the degree of importance that I shoud attribute
to the marked concept.
The next time that I read that statute, it took me 5 hours
instead of 24. The 3rd time, I had it almost perfectly memorized
(in its significant areas) and it took me maybe 90 minutes,
the point being that a
USED book can have greater value
than a new, clean one.
David
