>How do people find the nerve to throw a book away? How?!
What else do you do? I have finite space. For the most part, I donate them to my local library for their annual book sale but I imagine most of them end up in a dumpster somewhere.
As for writing in them or marking pages, some are pieces of art in their physical form, but most are just a tool for communication. I make notes and otherwise mark up books that I'm using as a source of information. They're just a tool.
Even for the books that are pieces of art in their physical form, writing on them is merely transformative art.
I see it as enhancement, added value - and I say it as someone who can't write in books after a decade of it being drilled into my head during childhood!
For what it's worth, the statement of Fermat's Last Theorem was written in a margin of a book.
What else do you do? I have finite space. For the most part, I donate them to my local library for their annual book sale but I imagine most of them end up in a dumpster somewhere.
As for writing in them or marking pages, some are pieces of art in their physical form, but most are just a tool for communication. I make notes and otherwise mark up books that I'm using as a source of information. They're just a tool.