Whoever had my American Legal History textbook was a complete moron, since the highlighting and markings show a legal acumen the likes of which accumulate in a tic-tac-toe playing chicken whose cage has been lined with the Pacific Reporter. In a book on legal history, the previous owner has underlined two seemingly random sentences in Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia and written "Democracy" in the margins. Similar obvious and non-noteworthy observations abound.
I'm not one of those people who buys used textbooks to piggyback on useful notes - I selected this particular book out of the stack because of the sparse highlighting and notation - but it becomes distracting when you're simultaneously trying to process information while lamenting a stranger's braindead observations.
That, and who the hell highlights the case names? It's not like they aren't already set off in big, bold text.
How true. That is why I avoid highlighted used books like fire (which, of course, means I mostly get new books and cry about their price for the rest of the semester). Everybody highlights different things, and some dopes out there highlight the most bizarre things. As for Jefferson, I would have written "Sally" instead of "Democracy" in the margins.
Wait, aren't you in that class?
I am. But I bought a new book so that I can highlight the names of the cases all by myself.