College Students! discussion

I don't know about you guys..but I love leaving things (notes, drawings, quotes) on little pieces of paper in library books..i also love finding things in books..like people's names or a message from someone who gave the book as a gift. I think the most precious thing to me is a bunch of old Nancy Drew books from when my mother was little. I have found her name written in them. It is so weird to see her handwriting from when she was a child. My mother passed away about 2 years ago and it is just real special to me.

What kinds of things have you found in old second hand books? Writing, messages? etc.

I've found movie tickets, drawings, and candy wrappers! that's about it.

haha candy wrappers??

yeah..its nasty. there was still like chocolate on it.

Ewww LOL. I've found a couple of cool bookmarks. I also like when people highlight books or write on them. And then there are library receits with all the books they checked out. I like reading those too :D

I've never left anything in a book, but maybe I should!

See..i'm the opposite..i hate when people write in books!

Once I found a to do list. it was pretty interesting.

haha what did it have on it?

nothing too interesting. normal things like..water the plants, buy milk at the store, write so and so a thank you note.

haha that's funny.

i found a stick of gum(wrapped) today in a book at the library. gross!!

Haha yuck. I kind of like when people write in books, because I like to know what other people think or what they found interesting about the book that I'm reading. As far as finding things, I've found a couple of boarding passes for different flights. But other than that, nothing!

i like when someone writes their rating for the book on a scale of 1-10..i hearing other peoples perspectives..so of course if it about a book i want to know what they would rate it. =)

Kelsey, I always do that! I write my rating for books on the inside cover. My mom and my grandma always used to do it, so I guess I just followed suit.

the other day i got a book out from the library..it was a book about fashion design for my project..and I found someones sketch for an outfit. It wasn't all that great but it was interesting!

so today I just got Edie: American Girl in the mail from paperbackswap.com and I opened it and started flipping through the pages and found a photograph of a girl on the beach. The date on the back says 2005. I freakin love finding things in books..as odd as some of the things are.

i think that's why i prefer getting used books..i just love the chance of finding something interesting in them.

I think I'm going to start writing little treasures in books, myself. Just so someone else can have it.

My problem is that I don't like letting go of my books!

haha kate I am the same way! I tried to get a big pile of books together to swap so that I could get new books that I've never read..but I can't..it's so hard! Sometimes when I get books from the library i leave little treasures in them.

I love finding things in books...my favorite thing about Powell's is looking through all the used books to see if there are any good inscription and i'll usually buy that books...i've also found alot of boarding passes, grocery lists, a few envelopes...once though I found a picture of a soldier from WWII I carried it around for a few months and told people it was my boyfriend.

haha Anna that reminds me of when I had to do a report on Trotsky back in high school. I showed a pic of him to my friend and said he was my bf and she was like "Awww. Want to see a picture of my daddy?" and showed me a picture of Bin Laden. haha.

seriously though.. I'm jealous. I love vintage photographs!!

At home there are a few books that my mom got as a child that have messages written in the beginning but that's about it for me.

well at the time I had just moved back home and was tired of people asking about my boyfriend or once I got "Oh, you didn't find a husband in college so you moved back home...you should come to church next sunday and I'll introduce you to some nice young men"...seriously is it 1950 again? Anyway I got tired of it and people probably thought I moved home cause I lost my marbles if I showed them that as my boyfriend which was perfectly fine with me.

i really enjoy finding little things in books.
i can't ever bring myself to throw them away, although i don't know why.

i was at the used book store the other day, and picked up a few old madeline l'engle autobiographies, and both of them had lovely inscriptions on the covers. normally that would bother me, but something about them being so old just didn't. maybe because the handwriting looks so much like me grandmother's....

i LOVE this thread so much!!

I always have to take stuff out of books in the library.
We also converted to a bar code system a while ago. and all the old cards are in the back. when they come in, we are supposed to take them out.
I love seeing when the book was taken out and who took it out.
I always look to see when the book I check out was last taken out.

and i always get really interested with what people write in books.. like why did they write it?

its the journalist in me. lol

My friend recently bought a book about love (like one with poems and lots of lovely color pictures and paintings) and as she was leafing through it in my car, she found a card near the back. It was written in 2000 and was to a man from a woman (I forget the names) and said something like "It's been a long journey but we made it this far," it was really nice.

Sort of on a tangent, has anyone ever found a secret in a PostSecret book?

No Tahleen, I haven't found a secret in one yet, but I've left my fair share. I've written some of mine in the books I own too, so whoever gets them next will get a few extra.

But sometimes I do find things in books, usually receipts from the library or the grocery store. I've never found anything too interesting.

i work at a library and i think once someone found a $100 bill in a book. i don't understand why people would leave MONEY in a LIBRARY book, but it happens every so often.

Maybe they like thinking it will go to someone who might need it?

It seems like a good size to use for a bookmark. I never have, but I bet that is what happens most of the time.

I do like Tahleen's thoughts though.

I would love to think that they left it there for someone who might need it, but I think they probably placed it there for safe keeping and forgot all about it.

haha, i can tell you that is not true cuz lots of people come back looking for it. usually they are SOL though.

I was using a $50 as a bookmark for a while...I can't really remember why but I think maybe my roommate had given it to be at the beginning of the month while I was reading so it was just handy (until it was needed of course).

Aww, I'm so sentimental about things like this. I find it somewhat serentipitous (SP?) to come across things in books. I've always wanted to do the same, but I love to hang on to my books, too. Maybe once I start using the library again I could do it... hm, any ideas on what to leave?

I found somethings recently that made me smile. In Les Misérables I found a card for a baby store that's been out of business for sometime.
And then in books that have been packed away for sometime down stairs I found note cards from my parents and grandparents. Some with notes and others with reminders.