> The third level is when somebody, reading a book written in a previous era, sees fit to CROSS OUT words and phrases they find offensive, such as "mankind", and write in what they think the author SHOULD have used if the author had owned a time machine and had made a detailed study of acceptable word usage in the year 2002. There used to be an Agatha Christie fan who belonged to my local library who did this; even worse, this person would cross out what he/she considered to be poor grammar or language usage and write in corrections. Almost every Christie book I checked out had this person's arrogance scrawled all over it. I had fantasies of staking out the Agatha Christie section for surveillance, perhaps manoeuvering all Agatha Christie borrowers into a situation where I could get a sample of their handwriting, and then inflicting severe bodily harm on the culprit.
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Good heavens, that last one is BEYOND annoying. I find the idea of writing in a book that isn't yours to be really stupid in the first place, but that is just... geaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. I would join you in stalking the borrowers in that case.

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