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Do you write notes in your RPG books?

Started by Spinachcat, October 12, 2016, 04:41:37 AM

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Omega

#30
October 13, 2016, 01:06:26 AM
Quote from: Elfdart;924684Post-It Notes

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Kiero

#31
October 13, 2016, 05:30:07 AM
No, I don't deface my books with scrawl. If I need to add notes, I write it on a separate sheet and put that in.
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#32
October 13, 2016, 08:37:08 AM
Quote from: Omega;924710The only time I've seen someone complain of larger font was when it was excessively large and felt like padding. But then some complain that of interior art too. And the reverse can and will be complained about. That a too small font is the company trying to skimp by compressing the font to get the page count down.

I guess what I was saying is the size that is comfortable for my eyes now is probably 12 or 13, which is something I'd have accused of being padding back when I was younger.

RunningLaser

#33
October 13, 2016, 09:09:21 AM
As an aging dipshit with bifocals- bring on the large/giant print!!!

AsenRG

#34
October 13, 2016, 02:39:14 PM
Quote from: Celestial;924695Heck no.  I never have written in a book, and I never will.  It's heresy and sacrilege.  In the olden days, I would have separate notebooks if I wanted to add a note.  Now, I just type something up and save the document.  I used to drive one of my English teachers nuts in middle school, because I read books without breaking the spine and she had no idea how that could be done.  I like to treat books with respect.  Just one of my quirks.

People used to drive me nuts because some of them never seemed able to figure out how not to break the spine;).
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Chainsaw

#35
October 13, 2016, 03:29:37 PM
The comments equating writing in your books to being disrespectful, defacing and desecratory are hilarious, heheh. You would think the OP asked if people took wild diarrhea shits in their books and then burned them out in the yard or something. I think the point of a book is that its information be read, digested and remembered. If writing in the book helps accomplish that for someone, I'm pretty sure the author would be delighted. But hey, to each his own, I guess.

jeff37923

#36
October 13, 2016, 03:49:20 PM
Quote from: AsenRG;924821People used to drive me nuts because some of them never seemed able to figure out how not to break the spine;).

That is something that still drives me nuts. :)
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Black Vulmea

#37
October 13, 2016, 03:58:08 PM
Quote from: Chainsaw;924832The comments equating writing in your books to being disrespectful, defacing and desecratory are hilarious, heheh.
Talking about 'desecrating' and 'defacing' a book blows right through 'respect' on its way to fetishize.

Never got over mommy taking away their crayons for coloring in their copies of Where the Wild Things Are, I suppose.
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#38
October 13, 2016, 04:01:41 PM
I wouldn't, but not out of some nebulous sense of "respect" or "sacredness". Gimme a break. I just like my books to stay in a relatively good condition. They get beat up enough at the table: I swear, so many of my books get beer or whiskey accidentally spilled on them by other players that I'm starting to think of the act as some form of christening.

I massacre my PDFs, though (if they aren't locked down with passwords).

AsenRG

#39
October 14, 2016, 05:12:16 AM
Quote from: jeff37923;924842That is something that still drives me nuts. :)

I just learned that other people are failible, and that I should forgive them that:D!
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RPGPundit

#40
October 17, 2016, 05:59:07 AM
I do make notes in my RPG books, but usually only when I'm writing in some house-rule that I know I want to keep using long-term.
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October 17, 2016, 03:19:38 PM
I don't write in books. For one thing, it kills their eBay value.
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#42
October 21, 2016, 12:55:54 PM
Quote from: Spinachcat;924553I cringe at the thought of defacing my books, but I may be the weird one here.

How many of you like using the margins and white space in the books to add your personal notes?

Do you get bummed when books don't provide you doodle space?

I'm not sure what you mean? Writing in books? I don't really follow. You mean that some people actually write in books?
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#43
October 23, 2016, 02:54:37 AM
I stick post-it notes in my books rather then write in them.

I will on occasion tape or glue a strip of paper with erattaed rules over the original (in such a way that I can, if needed lift the strip to see the old rules)
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