theBaron
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Hi, everyone! It just occurred to me to ask this, because I do it. I'm rereading John Lundstrom's "The First Team", and there are maps included. I find as I read passages, I want to refer back to the relevant map. It's a pain sometimes while lying on my back, book on my chest, to thumb back and forth. So I use gummed tabs, or the small PostIts, to mark pages with maps.
I have also made notes in margins of books, and marked typos and other corrections. My copy of Duffy's "The Army of Frederick the Great" has a lot of red in it. I think it's more a case of a poor copy editor than any failure on Duffy's part. And I've got some Osprey numbers that have some errors, some editing, some factual, and those are marked up.
I should clarify that I only do this with books I own, not with borrowed books.
And so, it occurred to me to ask if anyone else does.
I don't know-my notes may go unnoticed into the universe, unless someone inherits or acquires my books. I have seen notes from other people in books I acquired, too. Just like an author speaking to me again from his time, through his book, it's like that person also talking to me. Of course, it's a one-way conversation. Kind of like messages in space.
Prost!
Brad
I have also made notes in margins of books, and marked typos and other corrections. My copy of Duffy's "The Army of Frederick the Great" has a lot of red in it. I think it's more a case of a poor copy editor than any failure on Duffy's part. And I've got some Osprey numbers that have some errors, some editing, some factual, and those are marked up.
I should clarify that I only do this with books I own, not with borrowed books.
And so, it occurred to me to ask if anyone else does.
I don't know-my notes may go unnoticed into the universe, unless someone inherits or acquires my books. I have seen notes from other people in books I acquired, too. Just like an author speaking to me again from his time, through his book, it's like that person also talking to me. Of course, it's a one-way conversation. Kind of like messages in space.
Prost!
Brad
