(November 20, 2013 at 1:10 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote: If you're a book lover and are ever in Portland, check it out; the store is a whole city block and there are, I think, four or five floors...I found several first edition poetry books there- their poetry section is absolutely to die for.
And around the corner, there's a WHOLE SEPARATE SCIENCE POWELL'S. I plotzed.
I love bookstores, and Powell's is about as great a bookstore as there is on this planet. I also love Baumann's rare books on 5th Ave in NYC, but I can't afford anything there.
Quote:You just sent shivers up my spine. I HATE writing in books, dog earring pages, and giving my books away... I'm the queen of post-its, the repositionable passage marker, and the accompanying notebook. My 9th grade English teacher made us mark up our copies of the book 1984 which broke my heart, and I can't reread that copy because the highlights, underlining and notes are too distracting to me. That's the only good thing about Kindles to me: the underlining without feeling I'm destroying the integrity of the book.I LOVE seeing other people's underlinings and notes in used books. It's not distracting to me... I wonder why.
The only book I've ever written in that I didn't feel bad about writing in was the bible. ;p
I also love going back to my old Norton Anthologies of Poetry from college and flipping through and finding dogeared poems with notes from long-ago classes- poems I haven't thought of in years, or didn't adequately appreciate at the time. I love keeping books (I have an actual library in my house), but I also love giving them away. I would never give away my rare books, but any other book I can replace. Sometimes I'll give away a book and then feel that there is a hole in my library where a meaningful book used to be, and I'll get a new copy. For instance, I just gave my copy of Watership Down to a young reader (and told her to pass it to a friend when she was done), but what's a library without Watership Down? I need to buy another copy.
