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Every note a curator has left beside a book. The shortest reviews on IBDB, and often the most useful.

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“Not nasty at all actually. Sad. Leaving it here.”
on Odd Thomasin Nasty Little Books I Love @bleakhouse_bex
“included with reservations, see my review”
on Sapiensin Ideas Before Plot @kepler22b
“For the art students who thought nobody had ever been broke before.”
on Just Kidsin Books I Pushed Across The Desk @margaretreads
“If you are in, be in for all three.”
on The Night Angel Trilogyin No Heroes, Just Consequences @grimdarkgareth
“the appendix is the thesis”
on Nineteen Eighty-fourin Ideas Before Plot @kepler22b
“This one first. It is the kindest.”
on Cheer Up Lovein Kept Me Company At 3am @an_ordinary_tuesday
“For the stretch where you need somebody competent to be in charge for a while.”
on Becomingin Kept Me Company At 3am @an_ordinary_tuesday
“One entry a night.”
on Meditationsin Slow Books For Bad Weeks @mossandink
“The most practical and the thinnest.”
on Atomic Habitsin Systems, Not Goals @ivor_stack
“An argument about seeking, dressed as a parable.”
on Siddharthain Essays In Novel Form @w_okonkwo
“The blueprint.”
on The Way of Shadowsin No Heroes, Just Consequences @grimdarkgareth
“Read it near water if you can.”
on Siddharthain Slow Books For Bad Weeks @mossandink
“Later years. Sixth form, and only when I knew the family.”
on Educatedin Books I Pushed Across The Desk @margaretreads
“The best of these and the least practical, which is usually how it goes.”
on Thinking, Fast and Slowin Systems, Not Goals @ivor_stack
“One pencil line down the margin of the second half. That is my system being polite.”
on Man's Search for Meaningin Books I Have Ruined With Pencil @annotatedannie
“Short, which was half the battle.”
on Siddharthain Books I Pushed Across The Desk @margaretreads
“Now the thousand pages. You are ready.”
on The Way of Kingsin The Sanderson Starter Pack @hollowknightfan99
“Do not read anything about this one first. Nothing. Go in blind.”
on The Hero of Agesin The Sanderson Starter Pack @hollowknightfan99
“Start here, not with Stormlight. Six hundred pages and a complete story.”
on Mistbornin The Sanderson Starter Pack @hollowknightfan99
“Chapter 21 has three exclamation marks and the word no.”
on Thinking, Fast and Slowin Books I Have Ruined With Pencil @annotatedannie
“For the ones who insisted they hated reading. Worked most times.”
on The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxyin Books I Pushed Across The Desk @margaretreads
“Third copy. The first two fell apart.”
on Meditationsin Books I Have Ruined With Pencil @annotatedannie
“The one that always came back with the corners gone.”
on Nineteen Eighty-fourin Books I Pushed Across The Desk @margaretreads
“Where the argument stops being academic.”
on Man's Search for Meaningin A Syllabus For Doubting Yourself @theodore_p