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<blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 5662616" data-attributes="member: 54707">When I was younger I did this (made notes,&nbsp; drawing, sketches, changes, and so forth) with a lot of my old D&amp;D and other&nbsp; gaming materials (Gamma World, etc). I did it in rulebooks, dungeon or gaming&nbsp; modules, stuff I wrote, etc. I gave away or burned all of my old gaming stuff&nbsp; when I got into college, but of the stuff that survived my friends occasionally&nbsp; mention the notes I left behind.&nbsp; &nbsp;I also did and still do this to books I own or to&nbsp; books people lend me (from their own libraries). I create codes, make notes,&nbsp; drawings, sketches, underline or highlight passages of import, even invention&nbsp; write ups and theory synopses in the margins of a book or wherever there is free&nbsp; space. I even do this in all of my Bibles. The only place I do not make notes of&nbsp; this kind is in my own notebooks, because there all of my notes are ordered in&nbsp; specific patterns, not created ad hoc. But in other books and materials,&nbsp; whatever I am reading, if it inspires some thought or design or theory or&nbsp; sketch, I log it there. &nbsp; &nbsp;My friends used to get pissed off at me about this&nbsp; habit, but after awhile many of them told me that my notes were often as&nbsp; interesting or more interesting than the book text. So often friends would lend&nbsp; me books and tell me, &quot;make sure and make notes in it, and let me know what you&nbsp; think of it.&quot; So I did.&nbsp; &nbsp;Some of them later took up the same habit. And&nbsp; sometimes their notes would give me ideas. &nbsp; &nbsp;Personally I very much like the idea. Sometimes&nbsp; when I find old notes or sketches like that, either my own or someone else's,&nbsp; it's like finding buried treasure. Or a sort of&nbsp; time-capsule.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jack7, post: 5662616, member: 54707"] [FONT=Verdana]When I was younger I did this (made notes, drawing, sketches, changes, and so forth) with a lot of my old D&D and other gaming materials (Gamma World, etc). I did it in rulebooks, dungeon or gaming modules, stuff I wrote, etc. I gave away or burned all of my old gaming stuff when I got into college, but of the stuff that survived my friends occasionally mention the notes I left behind.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana] [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]I also did and still do this to books I own or to books people lend me (from their own libraries). I create codes, make notes, drawings, sketches, underline or highlight passages of import, even invention write ups and theory synopses in the margins of a book or wherever there is free space. I even do this in all of my Bibles. The only place I do not make notes of this kind is in my own notebooks, because there all of my notes are ordered in specific patterns, not created ad hoc. But in other books and materials, whatever I am reading, if it inspires some thought or design or theory or sketch, I log it there. [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana] [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]My friends used to get pissed off at me about this habit, but after awhile many of them told me that my notes were often as interesting or more interesting than the book text. So often friends would lend me books and tell me, "make sure and make notes in it, and let me know what you think of it." So I did.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana] [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Some of them later took up the same habit. And sometimes their notes would give me ideas. [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana] [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Personally I very much like the idea. Sometimes when I find old notes or sketches like that, either my own or someone else's, it's like finding buried treasure. [/FONT][FONT=Verdana]Or a sort of time-capsule.[/FONT] [/QUOTE]

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