I have a collection of books, often student edition classics, with notes and highlights from previous owners. These are my favorite books. The book is often given as an assignment, and the student reluctantly reads the book, with a bland cover image and assuming an even worse content. Here’s why they are my favorite books.
Let’s begin with the first few pages. Usually these pages are an expression of the students contempt towards the assignment. Typically there are doodles, often of a penis, with this book the owner has inscribed their judgment of the book on page one:
Tisk, tisk, have you not yet learned to never judge a book by its cover?
Next you’ll see some highlights, depending on how serious the student is towards the grade of the assignment. This person used multi colored highlighters, must have been rather serious:
There is a bit of notes as well, seems as though the student was following along quite nicely:
Now here comes the best part, the part that is the true twist in all literature, when we, the student, become actually engaged in the book, invested into the book, then…we enjoy it.
Yes, Jane Austen is quite halarious. But your marks are truly the light of the book dear:
There’s more:
It seems someone has found some pleasure in the book, enough so that it can be happily paired with tea or coffee:
These last two notes are the true “highlight” of this book:
Girl Puleese was this book truly garbage? I hope you enjoyed the notes as I have, also thank you previous owner for the free hand made bookmark that was found inside the book: