So I offer a counter proposal to the rather absurd effort recently undertaken by actor Kirk Cameron to distribute to the "top 50 universities" 50,000 copies of Darwin's book annotated with a 50 page introduction of fantasy and falsehoods that seek to dispute the indisputable.
A book annotated or otherwise inscribed by its author, or containing the markings of some other prominent or interesting person who has owned and used it, will be particularly desirable to the collector.
I became the #1 Amazon reviewer for non-fiction [or 32/216 overall including movies, software, and fiction) quite by accident, loading 300 reviews from my first two books' annotated bibliographies, and then getting "hooked" on reviewing as well as reading my normal intake of roughly 100-200 books a year.
As you're reading the book, annotate it.
If the ring does go to the Hampshire museum, it will join celebrated items like Austen's writing desk, some of her letters, and music books annotated by her hand, as well as a shelf of humbler artifacts found under the house's floorboards.
On December 2nd, Christie's will auction a selection of first-edition books annotated by their authors.
On December 2nd, Christie's will host the PEN American Center's First Editions/Second Thoughts benefit, an auction of first-edition books annotated by their authors.
To start, the project will consider the more than 400 books annotated by Harvey, running from the middle decades of the 16th century to the early decades of the 17th, transcribing, translating and cataloguing his many annotations and digitising the material to enable it to be shared and searched on a publicly-available website.
"Not only were these books annotated by Newton, but he also had a rather clever way of folding down the corners of the pages he was reading so that the tip of the page pointed to the word or section he was interested in - so these books were fascinating to researchers in this field," she said.
Most participants were able to rapidly identify their household in map books annotated with local landmarks.
