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Pro tip: I stopped judging books by the cover and started judging swaps by the margin notes, and it changed everything in a month
After 6 months of trading paperbacks at the Portland swap meet, I realized the books with handwritten margin notes get grabbed twice as fast as the clean ones, so now I always flip through for other people's scribbles before I pass anything along, and honestly I want to know if anyone else does this or if I'm just weird.
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diana_west272d ago
Flip through the first few pages too, not just the margins. I've found grocery lists, old phone numbers, and even a movie ticket stub from 1989 tucked inside. Those extras make people stop and look way more than clean copies. I also check for highlighted lines because some folks love seeing what moved another reader enough to mark it. You're not weird at all, you're just paying attention to the stuff that makes a used book feel like it has a history. Keep doing it, and maybe start noting which kinds of notes sell best.
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