It is okay to dog ear pages. It is okay to draw in books. Doodles. Margin notes. Highlights. Books are to be interacted with, argued with, marked, loved. A book belongs to the reader as much as the writer. The reader should let the book know they exist.
Matt Haig
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If you were to draw a moustache on the Mona Lisa, you’d be directly defacing the unique work of art itself. When someone scribbles in the margins of a book, unless it’s a rare edition, they’re writing on the medium through which the work is delivered. The work itself is not affected (there’ll still be plenty of pristine copies left).
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Agreed 👍
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True, but not in MY collection. And that’s what I choose to treat as art. I don’t mind what other people do to their books, but my own are far too precious to me for marking up or bending page corners. Like my family and my animals, I can love them without damaging them. At least not on purpose. 🙂 But that’s just me.
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Hmmm. Interesting idea, and probably okay for some, I guess, but not for me. To me, books are works of art and I would no sooner write in them than I would draw a moustache on the Mona Lisa. Sorry. Can’t do it. I do pick them up now and then and pet the covers, but that’s about as abusive as I get. 🙂
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