Stop underlining books, please.
I got this in the mail today and pissed me off to no end.
I love buying used books. Some people like to adopt recue cats and dogs, I do books. But it seriously makes me mad when I get a book underlined by the previous owner.
I know, you bought the book, and it was yours to do with it what you want. But if you are going to “release it back to the wild” after you are done with it, just go ahead and keep it. What you thought was interesting and important may not be what I or any other reader would care for. To me underlines attract unnecessary attention from the whole page and it forces me to spend more time and effort reading.
And there is also the thing that some of the previous readers are really dumb individuals, a deduction you make after reading their selections.
The only blessing about this particular book is that the underlining is in pencil, which means I will have to spend time with a soft eraser and remove all marked passages before I get to enjoy the tome.
So I have to ask ... "Used" covers a lot of ground. What condition was it advertised to be in? If it's not in as good a condition as indicated, and there's not a particular reason to keep this copy (e.g. there are no others available), I'd be very tempted to send it back.
But that's me; and I've been increasingly grumpy over the deterioration in quality of goods and services I'm finding as a pretty general phenomenon, and I'm in increasingly less of a mood to put up with it when I encounter it.
Excellent choice of read, Miguel!