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Originally Posted by Juliette
Maybe that's one of the origins of the personal choice- depending on country/school, the ownership of textbooks. I owned my schoolbooks, for example, since first grade (for primary school it's free, then it's up to you if you want to buy it new or second-hand), even some dictionaries if you were in humanities high school (and annotations on dictionaries for, say, lemma in Latin or Greek will save you a lot of times). So I feel no problem if you want to annotate, add, comment, doodle and so on (unless it's a text you would have needed at an exam, but some professors actually encouraged annotations- shows that you've worked on it).
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I think you have a good point. For my first twelve years of schooling I didn't own my books and weren't allowed to make notes in them. I've always made notes on seperate paper. Later, making notes in books never worked out for me when I tried. Firstly there's not enough room, and secondly the types of paper used in those books were generally uncomfortable to write on. I've never gotten any worth out of notes in books, while I learn a lot more from writing extensive notes on note-paper.
Apart from that, I'm just naturally fussy about my books. That's why e-books are great. They don't get scuffed, bend, cracked or dirty
