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Discarded delights: The joy of ex-library books (2021)

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95 points MrVandemar | 3 comments | 20 Nov 24 09:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.56s | source
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oniony ◴[20 Nov 24 11:01 UTC] No.42192723[source]▶
My late mother was an avid reader of library books. She used to mark the books she had read by filling in the loops of the letters on the copyright page. Apparently she noticed the hidden codes that other readers used to similarly mark books they had read: a circle around page 10, a line on page 20, &c.

I wonder if the author has come across such marks?

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1. andai ◴[20 Nov 24 21:27 UTC] No.42198290[source]▶
Do people forget which books they've read? If there's something I haven't finished, the sense of incompletion stays with me forever.
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2. teachrdan ◴[20 Nov 24 23:59 UTC] No.42199496[source]▶
Can't speak to OP's mom's experience, but I've heard of avid romance novel readers losing track of all the books they've read.
3. oniony ◴[21 Nov 24 09:32 UTC] No.42202549[source]▶
Yes. I believe they would not recognise them by cover but would think "crap I've read this before" when getting to a certain part of the plot.