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[biggersandwich]

I love pissy and inaccurate marginal annotations in library books. This one has angrily crossed out the "state" in "state school" to write "provincial", which is a sort of correct as the school in question is in Ontario, but the author is from the UK, is writing for a UK audience, and clearly means "government-run, i.e. not privately owned." GOOD

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[lost_spook]

:lol:

I used to have a whole lot of second hand Chalet School books that had been "corrected" by someone - they pointed out all the things the front cover had got wrong, inconsistencies, and wrote charming things like "stupid bitch" in the margins. It's not what I wanted in my old fashioned boarding school books.

Underlining varies. If it's been an exam text, you've lost it, but the odd one underlined sentence in a book is rather a charming mystery. Why? What did they like/not like about it?

[biggersandwich]

D: Actual insults are not fun. I can appreciate a certain amount of "and who is that person on the cover who is clearly not in the books at any point???" joking because some covers are very peculiar, but I'm not sure the margins are the ideal place to do that.

I find that people who underline in library books are so bad at it though! I could take a single underlined sentence, but they never carefully underline, they always half cross it out and underline whole paragraphs and so on, and use the most inappropriate writing utensils.