I currently have quite a lot of books that I have collected over the past couple of years. Some I got as a gift, some for myself but of a lot I'm not sure when or why or from who I got the books. I now wished that I had written it down somewhere for example in the book. I always used to be against writing in books, I saw it as damaging the book. But now I wish I had.
On the 6th of May, 2009 my grandmother gave me her edition of Anne Frank's diary. I know it was this date, because she wrote it down. She always used to write the date on something when she gave a present to me, or any of her other grandchildren. Especially now she is passed away, it has such an important message to me that she wrote it down. May I also add that my grandmother passed away on the 6th of May 2013, coincidence?
I am sure that when we are ten years further, I will for most of the books that I own now, won't remember when I got them - or which occasion, etc. So I'm thinking of beginning to writing it down in the books. I'm still contemplating because I think it is quite a decision to make; to write in (most of the times) quite expensive books.
What do you think about this idea? Do you write in your books?
