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I have a book (not authored by Edison) that Thomas Edison scribbled his comments in the margin and I was quite happy to read them! Changing my own nearly-religi

I have a book (not authored by Edison) that Thomas Edison scribbled his comments in the margin and I was quite happy to read them! Changing my own nearly-religious belief to never write in a book,I found that it totally changed my experience with the book and the author. There are thousands of copies of any particular modern book and it's no longer my task to preserve that unique copy for after the apocalypse. I would like to imagine my children one day being able to see their father's thoughts and dialogue with authors.

nahkoots 2mo ago
That's incredibly cool actually, what was the book? Could you share anything he wrote which you found especially interesting?
- RRWagner 2mo ago
  The book is "Making Good in Business" by Roger W. Babson. Babson gifted the book to Edison in 1921. Here is a link to a scan of another copy of the book in the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/bwb_P9-DAU-349/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/bwb_P9-DAU-349/mode/2up Here is my github repo with scans of the marginalia from Edison: https://github.com/RRWagner/Making-Good-in-Business-Babson-Edison https://github.com/RRWagner/Making-Good-in-Business-Babson-E...
  - throwaway554514 2mo ago
    Got excited to check it out. fyi the same image (inscription) somehow got uploaded for all the images.
    - RRWagner 2mo ago
      Thank you for the heads up! There was an error in the conversion process. All the images are there now.
  - Chilko 2mo ago
    These were interesting: "History proves that religion is a curse and is the master scheme for Exploitation of man" - p47 "God helps nobody. 20 million perished in the late war — for no fault of theirs Why did God permit this" - p48