So I checked out a copy of Edith Wharton's short stories, including "Roman Fever," because someone recently mentioned reading it! I noticed it had a little annotation then turned the page and...

some brave and virtuous soul (assuming it wasn't the same person) tried erasing but soon discovered that even a gentle eraser takes off the PRINT.

@platypus I enjoy notes in old books. It's really cool, like finding old wallpaper in a house.

@sullybiker if they don’t CROSS OUT PASSAGES like this menace it can be ok. Notes in the margin are normally ok. But this is making a library book completely useless for its purposes β€” I borrowed it to read the story and I can’t read the story like that. It might be interesting to read notes afterward but it ruined it for me with crossing out passages

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@platypus I can see how that would be irritating

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