Author: Eric Grundhauser / Source: Atlas Obscura
Personally, I’m always excited when I open a used book and find the previous owner’s thoughts and underlines. It’s like a window into a stranger’s literary journey that I’m about to relive with them as I read along.
A friend once gave me her personal copy of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, complete with underlined passages and little thoughts about certain lines that she found especially important. Her notes gave me insight into how she read Whitman’s masterwork, and what it…The post Send Us the Greatest Note You’ve Found Written in an Old Book appeared first on FeedBox.