I’m still relatively new to this meme so I’m not sure if this has been asked yet, but I’m curious how many of us write notes in our books. Are you a Footprint Leaver or a Preservationist?
It acutally freaks me out to think about writing in a book. I never do, and until law school, I never did even in textbooks. I made the exception in law school because when you read a court opinion, you might as well be reading in Middle English. You have to learn how to understand it, and at least in the part of the country where I went to school, they teach you to use a system of color-coded highlighters to help. So I still have law books with rainbow-colored pages.
My dad takes notes in books all the time, but then again, he has mechanically perfect handwriting and can draw a straight line without a ruler.
Write Wrote Written 
I never took notes in textbooks until law school either – and I still cringed the first time I wrote in each book. I got used to it after awhile, though. I still would never write in any other book though!
I just read “As I Lay Dying”. And I bought it used. The notes in it were quite helpful. So, know that your notes may help someone else. Or make them angry. But I am pretty easy.
I used to write all over my college texts. I went to public schools before college and writing in books was forbidden (that’s what those brown paper bag covers we used to make for the books were for, after all). I tend not to write in my books nowadays, but if I must, I always use pencil that I can go back and erase later. I love the idea of foot printing, just the same–I just prefer not to find it in books I plan to read unless it happens to mean something special to me.
Like Literary Feline, I too prefer not to write in books. Books are sources of knowledge — they should be treated with care.
oh, gosh no! the only books i’ve ever written in were college books…my personal collection at home i treat with kid gloves….