gwimoApr 1, 2024

Student: Someone defaced this book.

Me: Oh yeah. That's common. Students tend to write marginalia and underline passages.

Student: That's not that. You may want to take a look.

Me: (embarassed as fuck because I WAS NOT expecting to see THAT!) Oh geez. Yeah. No. Ok. Was not thinking I was gonna... Ok yeah. Totally not a note I was expecting to see. Thank you.

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Show threadPatchyApr 1, 2024
@gwimo Is that a white-out situation or do you replace the whole book at that point?
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@PatchyBites
A lot of our books are unique/out of print. White out is never a solution, though. At the public library we had a mechanical eraser that faded ink.
Apr 1, 2024 at 11:41pmWeb
Show threadPatchyApr 2, 2024
@gwimo Totally forgot that ink erasers were a thing!!!! That also explains why @RealPatchette keeps a stockpile of security ink pens... not for defacing books for signing legal documents.
Show threadgwimoApr 2, 2024

@PatchyBites @RealPatchette
What an odd way to end that response...

I got my eyes on y'all 🤨

Show threadPatchyApr 3, 2024

@gwimo @RealPatchette HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

It's true, though. @RealPatchette throws a fit if a check gets signed or if any documents get signed with something other than one of her special anti-counterfeit pens. All these years and ink erasers never crossed Patchy's mind as to why.