On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 11:41:42 -0800, sf > wrote:

>On 13 Feb 2005 07:26:37 GMT, Wayne Boatwright >
>wrote:
>
>> On Sat 12 Feb 2005 11:52:44p, sf wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>>
>> > On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 02:56:24 GMT, blake murphy
>> > > wrote:
>> >
>> >> but i'd guess 90% percent of us write in cookbooks.
>> >
>> > I don't.
>> >
>> > sf
>>
>> That's because you're special! :-)
>>
>> Actually, I hate to see writing in books of any kind, didn't even write in
>> textbooks while in school. But I have a fair number of Post-It notes stuck
>> on appropriate pages in cookbooks.
>>
>Ditto! I don't even dog ear pages - I was trained too well
>in elementary school on how to "take care" of books that
>didn't belong to me... so now that I own them, I still take
>care of them in the same way.
>
>
>sf

nothing wrong with that. but now you own them, so you take notes in
them because then they're handy. (actually, i'll write in my
dictionary too, they're both sort of tools...)

your pal,
blake