Rant: Bought a signed first edition at a flea market, turns out it was a library discard

Honestly, I paid $18 for a beat-up thriller with a signature I thought was real, but the inside stamp said 'Nashville Public Library - withdrawn' and the author's autograph was printed on the dust jacket. Ngl, I was mad for a day, but then I realized the scribbles in the margins from some rando reader made it more interesting than any clean copy I own. Has anyone else picked up a 'rare' find that turned out to be someone's leftover, and did you keep it or dump it?

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dylanbell12d agoMost Upvoted

Have you kept any of the margin notes, or did you just leave them in the book? Those little scribbles are like a secret conversation from a stranger, and honestly that's way cooler than a machine printed signature. I'd keep it, flaws and all, cause a beat up book with a story inside the story is worth way more than what you paid.