tried to imagine what the person who owned it before you was like?
2007-01-02 22:03:38 · 25 answers · asked by Billie 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
nope, because they probaly be just like me since I was interested in the same thing they was.
2007-01-02 22:05:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the last person that owned the second hand book that I bought was a Meany. Last two pages were missing. LOL
2007-01-03 06:30:03 · answer #2 · answered by Lyn I 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes... I love buying poetry books that other people have jotted notes in... you can tell who had to use the particular book for a class, and who owned it just for the love of it. Second hand books are one of my favourite gifts to receive, especially when it was a book loved by a friend.
2007-01-03 06:07:38 · answer #3 · answered by Mikisew 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes! I love old books. I used to work in publishing before kids. I have a slew of them in my house. Some of them are 50-plus years old. They are falling apart, which makes me love them more. Some of them are so silly, like "A Suitor too Many." I can just visualize some young American girl in a frilly dress sitting on her window bench, leafing through it.
Another one, is an old bible or something written by Martin Luther King. And in pencil it has his name scribbled on the inside. I know it was probably someone just doodling, but part of me hopes it's actually his signature.
I buy old kid's books that were my favs, like the Rats of Nimh, and write inscriptions to my son's in them. I hope they treasure books like I do.
2007-01-03 10:58:36 · answer #4 · answered by avalonlee 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I have. I have thought that about others things too. Like houses, especially old ones. I was at an old train depot, and tried to imagine what it was like in it's hey day.
2007-01-03 06:07:46 · answer #5 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do that with this sherlock holmes book my brother has.... It's really old.. It was made in 1892. And it even has a little note written on the inside of the front cover from a daughter that gave it to her dad on his birthday.
2007-01-03 15:22:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. If the book was obviously well-read and the person liked it, I try to wonder what they were like, and why they liked the book, if they were male or female (sometimes this is pretty easy to guess) and I wonder how old they were.
2007-01-03 06:19:45 · answer #7 · answered by Breein 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not really....more often I find myself thinking of the life of the book itself; how many people have owned it and where it's been, or how many times it collected dust on some strange person's shelf...I wonder about the book itself :)
2007-01-03 11:48:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I restore books, and have to work out just what damage the last owners inflicted onto the book, in order to correct it.
2007-01-03 06:07:12 · answer #9 · answered by DAVID C 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, I think that way more with old library books, I wonder about all the people that have read the pages
2007-01-03 06:04:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, and sometimes when I would open a book that I bought I would smell it and think moldy thoughts. :)
2007-01-03 06:59:45 · answer #11 · answered by spiritcavegrl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋