A friend told me recently that she loves to borrow my books because it’s interesting to see what I have marked in them.\u00a0 She especially loves my question marks in the margins!<\/p>\n
One hazard of lending a marked book, however, is that if it is lost, you can (usually) replace the book, but not the notes.\u00a0 Fortunately, the folks to whom I have lent books have been good about returning them.<\/p>\n
I actually keep duplicates of a couple of favorite titles to lend so that I can keep my treasured marked copies!<\/p>\n
I always tell friends to keep my books as long as they need them, and I’ll let them know if I need them back at a particular time.\u00a0 I’ve only had to “recall” books a few times.<\/p>\n
I lend out so many books (it’s one way I rationalize the size of my home library ) that I keep a running list on the computer of books I have lent.\u00a0 I have columns for date, name of person, and name of book(s).\u00a0 I add an x before the title when the book is returned.<\/p>\n
If you lend a lot of books to friends, this is a simple way to keep up with them.\u00a0 Often I’ll look for a book on my shelf, then remember I lent it to someone, but I usually can’t remember to whom without the aid of my handy list.<\/p>\n
I also keep a list of books I borrow from friends.<\/p>\n
Hope you can use this idea!<\/p>\n
Mary Jo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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