one of the possessions I’m most excited to pass on to an eventual niece or nephew is a young adult novel I bought when I was a young teenager, annotated, and then passed along to 3 other young teenagers living on the block I grew up on to have their annotations in conversation with mine. I’m sure they’re probably silly and embarrassing and use a lot of that classic early 2010s kid lingo but what a cool object to have, not just for me but for any reader in the future who will have the excited scribblings of kids from decades ago to accompany them along their reading journey.
Those silly and embarrassing annotations are precisely why it's such a cool and priceless item to pass down generation to generation. I wish more people did stuff like this. Thank you for such a thoughtful comment!
You make the points that will forever make the used book a treasure to come across. I have used books i picked up in 1987 in another region. I tend to wonder on occasion if those books will live on or if they will mold and be dumped. I have a used old first edition copy of A message to Garcia. The first and second owners were both enlisted farm boys. I must be the third owner, and have a farm, just 1200 miles north of where the book started life. I haven’t met the young person to pass it on to yet as most of the ones i know don’t understand non digital objects of learning. Here’s to used books with a unique past to add interest to our reads. They are really an anthropological vessel within the objects themselves. One of the few modern objects to still be easily found across the world. What an interesting thesis topic.
Agree with this 100%. While I understand the objective value of keeping old books pristine and untouched, nothing makes me happier on a personal level than finding an old, heavily battered used book with little notes, inscriptions, and annotations scribbled throughout. As you say perfectly, they're one of the greatest anthropological vessels we currently have. Thank you for the kind words and thoughtful comment. This is exactly why I made this video.
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one of the possessions I’m most excited to pass on to an eventual niece or nephew is a young adult novel I bought when I was a young teenager, annotated, and then passed along to 3 other young teenagers living on the block I grew up on to have their annotations in conversation with mine. I’m sure they’re probably silly and embarrassing and use a lot of that classic early 2010s kid lingo but what a cool object to have, not just for me but for any reader in the future who will have the excited scribblings of kids from decades ago to accompany them along their reading journey.
Those silly and embarrassing annotations are precisely why it's such a cool and priceless item to pass down generation to generation. I wish more people did stuff like this.
Thank you for such a thoughtful comment!
You make the points that will forever make the used book a treasure to come across. I have used books i picked up in 1987 in another region. I tend to wonder on occasion if those books will live on or if they will mold and be dumped. I have a used old first edition copy of A message to Garcia. The first and second owners were both enlisted farm boys. I must be the third owner, and have a farm, just 1200 miles north of where the book started life. I haven’t met the young person to pass it on to yet as most of the ones i know don’t understand non digital objects of learning. Here’s to used books with a unique past to add interest to our reads. They are really an anthropological vessel within the objects themselves. One of the few modern objects to still be easily found across the world. What an interesting thesis topic.
Agree with this 100%. While I understand the objective value of keeping old books pristine and untouched, nothing makes me happier on a personal level than finding an old, heavily battered used book with little notes, inscriptions, and annotations scribbled throughout. As you say perfectly, they're one of the greatest anthropological vessels we currently have.
Thank you for the kind words and thoughtful comment. This is exactly why I made this video.