That library copy had 47 sticky notes in it, all arguing

Last month our club read a book about urban farming. I grabbed the library's copy and found 47 sticky notes inside, each one from a different reader. Some notes agreed, some flat out called the author wrong about compost ratios. It was like reading three book clubs at once. I started cataloging the notes by chapter, and now I've got a whole debate map for our next meeting. Has anyone else mined a used copy for other people's opinions before?

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reese12410d ago

honestly that sticky note thing is such a cool find, i totally get why you started mapping them out. there's something about seeing other people's raw reactions in their own handwriting that just hits different, like you're not alone in the confusion or the excitement about chapter seven. i found a copy of a gardening book once with a note in the margin that just said "NO" next to a whole paragraph about fertilizer, and i still think about that person and what they knew that the author didn't. it makes the reading feel more like a conversation with strangers than a one way street, and honestly that's the best part of any book club anyway. keep that debate map, that's the kind of thing that makes meetings actually worth showing up for.