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The librarian who told me to stop treating old notes like treasure
Overheard her say most marginalia in used books is just grocery lists and doodles, not hidden messages. Hit different because she showed me 3 examples from the 80s where people wrote phone numbers on recipe cards, now I read scribbles way more skeptical.
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foster.dylan2mo ago
Started treating margin notes like a find at a yard sale instead of a clue. If it looks like someone was just jotting down a reminder, I skim it and move on. But the weird stuff, like a single word circled on a random page, still gets me every time. Had a used copy of a poetry book with a little drawing of a pen and arrow pointing to the spine, turned out the previous owner wrote their name there. That felt like a real find, but now I know most scribbles are just people living their lives.
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