Do you write your name inside your book cover?

azy88 · Post by **azy88** » 06 Jul 2015, 22:02

I don't like writing on books. I think it ruins the book. Just like a hate it when people bend the corner of the pages down to mark which place they were at. I think it's a crime against books. Buy a bookmarker people! I'd I want to put my name in a book to claim it as mine, I buy those little sticker things that say "This Book Belongs To". And I'll write my name on the sticker. This way its not causing any damage to the book. It also helps if I ever decide that I want to get rid of the book because all I'd have to do is peal the sticker off before I give it away or sell it. But it also helps to have my name in the book because my friends and I are always borrowing each others books. So when I have my name in mine or they have their name on theirs I know who's book belongs to whom and I'm able to return it to its rightful owner when I am done reading it. So my opinion is to buy the stickers so that its not hurting the book and you still get to be able to write your name in it!

missbookworm · Post by **missbookworm** » 07 Jul 2015, 16:03

Only if it's a book for school. I don't like writing inside books, and I like keeping them nice. However, I do imagine that once I become an elementary school teacher, I'll be writing my name somewhere in the books I'll be keeping in the classroom.

Jazmin17 · Post by **Jazmin17** » 10 Jul 2015, 00:18

I don't write my name on my books anymore. Not even my uni books. I used to do that when I was in primary school. That's all.

Aadila · Post by **Aadila** » 12 Jul 2015, 15:59

No, personally I don't write my name in my books. Firstly there is no need for me to as no one borrows from me and secondly, I just don't like to write in them. However I have never thought about writing the date in them in order to remember when they were purchased

maroki13 · Post by **maroki13** » 13 Jul 2015, 21:31

No, I don't. If I lend books out though and think I may not get them back, I take a picture of the book titles before I pass them along.

CrystalD94 · Post by **CrystalD94** » 14 Jul 2015, 09:50

For school mostly, but sometimes I'll write my name small in the inside cover of novels for that sense of ownership thing. It's pretty random which ones I choose to write in though because sometimes I write my name because I loved the book and never want to lose it, but on the other hand sometimes I don't so that I won't "ruin" the book because I loved it.

Melissa-C-Water · Post by **Melissa-C-Water** » 14 Jul 2015, 10:22

I don't. I feel it makes the book messy.

The only time I would see it as a good thing is if the book is one I love and someone wrote a note in it to give it to me as a gift.

The only time I write in a book is if its one of my own and I am signing it for a reader.

bookstra · Post by **bookstra** » 14 Jul 2015, 10:58

Never.

J-Hannam · Post by **J-Hannam** » 15 Jul 2015, 01:45

Not unless I'm lending it out but even then I usually forget. Although in saying that if it is a much loved book of mine that I desperately want back I know every little crease I've left on it to identify it as mine.

Sarah_Khan · Post by **Sarah_Khan** » 12 Mar 2016, 16:21

I used to do that when I was a kid in case it ever got lost, but now... I agree with you, if I wrote my name on the book I would feel like I was hurting it.

Also I feel as somehow the value of the book would go down in my eyes if I ever wrote my name in it.

tortoise keeper · Post by **tortoise keeper** » 12 Mar 2016, 20:23

I don't write my name inside my books. (Though I don't really have that many "real" books anymore.) I did have a friend though that cared so much about his books that he had an embosser made with his initials so he could mark the first page of each book he bought. I tend to just give mine away when I'm done reading them.

Jewels951 · Post by **Jewels951** » 12 Mar 2016, 20:54

I don't. Only if it's for school.

eyes4only1 · Post by **eyes4only1** » 12 Mar 2016, 21:27

no!! i hate writing in books! i don't feel comfortable writing in them. when i was in high school one of my teachers would go around to make sure that we wrote our names in our books and every time it felt like i was carving the words, " i must not tell lies" on the back of my hand! Every time!!
Although i will not write in my books i don't "baby" them. i think that a "well loved" book has character. As if they are proof of the places you've been. places they have been with you. every tear is a time, every spot is place, every mark is a testament. That sand in between the pages that sometimes fall out is evidence you sat under the sun on the beach in Mexico or that the best coffee house is 10 miles from your apartment but you still go because it smell nice and the barista always calls you by name.
i will never write in a book ever again.
how could i deface a friend?

Suma Hegde · Post by **Suma Hegde** » 13 Mar 2016, 02:00

No! There shouldn't be a single mark on the book. It spoils it.

Fantasy Angel · Post by **Fantasy Angel** » 13 Mar 2016, 13:54

I NEVER WRITE MY NAME IN BOOKS! It makes me feel like I'm ruining the book! I would put tracking devices on my books before I would write my name in them! LOL