¿What curious objects (cards, letters, photographs) have you found in second.hand books?

Answer 1

I found a page with a note in a different language, seemed like a letter..it was a medical book in english.

Answer 2

I found writings in an old steven king book that was purchased at a 1970's yard sale. The writings would say things like a females name, a date, a hotel name, and the room number lol. It was sort of obvious what it was describing. I read them all. Some had multiple names. Sometimes he would just write how he was feeling on a page. Some even have what the whether was like that day. I got really curious when I found a couple entries stating an hotel name, a room # and a name that was male. This is of course considering the owner of the book was male also. lol. I got such a thrill reading these. I still have the book.

Answer 3

I found a Hong Kong laundry ad. It made a nice bookmark that I used for awhile.
A friend of mine found money in a used book.
Once I found a used book where the reader had made notations about characters they knew in the book and locales. The book was fiction but based upon real people from the 1920s.

Answer 4

I have found index cards, postcards, cash register receipts, and even an airline ticket stub. Perhaps they were being used as bookmarks?

Reminds me of a story - possibly apocryphal - about Albert Einstein. He supposedly once used a check for $1500 as a bookmark, then lost the book.

Answer 5

I often find things in library books, a lotery ticket (not a winner) a bird book mark, a shoppinglist, I really enjoy finding these things, and always put them back in for the next person. I have considered starting up a project where I put things in the library books I take out for people to find.

Answer 6

I found a transit visa for crossing into E Berlin from West Berlin dated 1970 in a copy of Pilgrim's Progress published in 1890s.

I still have both

Answer 7

I found a Canadian 10 dollar bill in a used Catcher in the Rye book lol.

Answer 8

I found a card in a library book from a clinic asking the person to come in for another Mammogram test. (I'm thinking the first test found something not so good.....)

Answer 9

I once bought an old second-hand copy of a Sherlock Holmes mystery, and found a train ticket inside that had been bought by someone called Dr Watson, (his name was printed on the ticket). Strange coincidence!!!

Answer 10

I found an anagram game from a weetabix box from the late 1970s being used as a bookmark.