Via Boing Boing, here’s a manifesto I can get behind: Lifehack Your Books: Dogear, Writing In Books, and Apologizing to Librarians. As the author notes:
I personally believe that there is no greater respect that can be shown a book than by using it.
Amen. I love books. I count several among my most prized posessions. But I have never worried about scribbling, bending, or otherwise "ruining" books as I read them.
Reading is a contact sport. It’s the content inside that I prize, not the object itself.*
*Yes, with the exception of my signed Ginsberg poetry…
