SquirrelNuts
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I have been brought up to never write in books. My mother was a librarian and it was a mortal sin in school to write in books. Do you all write in your load books and make notes or highlight favorite charges?
Do you write in your load manuals?
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Doogledog
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I write with #2 pencils in mine all the time.
~z
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Your mother would not like my reload library. However, I keep most of my notes in binders specific to each rifle. Most of my marginalia is related to pistol loads.
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evan price
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I bought one of those miniature lab notebooks with the black and white pebbly colored covers, it's about 3x5 or so and 100 pages. It's where I write everything down. I use the freebie load pamphlets you get from the gun shop and highlight, scribble, circle, etc. and refer back to the notebook. The books are looked at and put away, not written in.
~z
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Walkalong, I wish I could claim it, but it is a real word, learned it in college and everything.
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SquirrelNuts
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginalia
Marginalia (plurale tantum) is the general term for notes, scribbles, and editorial comments made in the margin of a book. The term is also used to describe drawings and flourishes in medieval illuminated manuscripts. True marginalia is not to be confused with reader's signs, marks (e.g. stars, crosses, fists) or doodles in books. The formal way of adding descriptive notes to a document is called annotation.
Marginalia (plurale tantum) is the general term for notes, scribbles, and editorial comments made in the margin of a book. The term is also used to describe drawings and flourishes in medieval illuminated manuscripts. True marginalia is not to be confused with reader's signs, marks (e.g. stars, crosses, fists) or doodles in books. The formal way of adding descriptive notes to a document is called annotation.
Woodstock45678
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I highlight my main loads but don't write in the books. I bought a Moleskine book and keep all my reload/test data in there. Plus, I've started to staple my reload cards to the test targets so I can go back and look at how well my loads did (or in some cases....didnt 
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)D. Manley
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I used to but no longer do. I recently thumbed through some of my vintage manuals (late 60's/early 70's) and got a chuckle from some of the notes.
Otto
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Reloading manuals are not great literary works of art. So of course you can write in them. Besides, all manuals are soon superseded with newer editions containing newer data.
The exception to this is "The Complete Guide to Handloading" by Philip Sharpe which few of you probably own.
I consider it to be the holy book of reloading and to scribble in it would be to desecrate it.
The exception to this is "The Complete Guide to Handloading" by Philip Sharpe which few of you probably own.
I consider it to be the holy book of reloading and to scribble in it would be to desecrate it.
FlyinBryan
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i do, but not much at all.
i do make a lot of labels that i stick on ammo boxes, primer boxes, plastic baggies with different weight brass, plastic tubs, primed and ready, sized, trimmed, 1x fired, 2x fired, 3x fired, ,,,,,,,,,
but not really that much in the actual books
i do make a lot of labels that i stick on ammo boxes, primer boxes, plastic baggies with different weight brass, plastic tubs, primed and ready, sized, trimmed, 1x fired, 2x fired, 3x fired, ,,,,,,,,,
but not really that much in the actual books
ranger335v
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"I have been brought up to never write in books. My mother was a librarian"
And your mother was right. For a library. But wrong for MY referece books of any kind.
I make notes, use high lighters, glue in photo copies of other information, etc, as I wish. When I'm dead anyone who obtains my books will have to live with it or toss them. Actually, I figger if my grandsons use them they will enjoy seeing what grandpa had to say.
And your mother was right. For a library. But wrong for MY referece books of any kind.
I make notes, use high lighters, glue in photo copies of other information, etc, as I wish. When I'm dead anyone who obtains my books will have to live with it or toss them. Actually, I figger if my grandsons use them they will enjoy seeing what grandpa had to say.
kimbernut
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Writing in reload manuals
They are my manuals. Yes I write in them- not much but neat notes are reminders of good experiences that I may wish to repeat or bad experiences that I may wish to avoid . Mic settings of the powder measure are also noted in the margins of the manual pages and my reloading log. This is quite handy if you load many different cartridges.
They are my manuals. Yes I write in them- not much but neat notes are reminders of good experiences that I may wish to repeat or bad experiences that I may wish to avoid . Mic settings of the powder measure are also noted in the margins of the manual pages and my reloading log. This is quite handy if you load many different cartridges.
The Bushmaster
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Just short notes and corrections...And not often.
rfwobbly
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Yes, but only when your mother isn't looking.
Clark
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Hoxviii
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Absolutely. They are manuals- a guide to what you're doing. Any notes that make it easier or more clear should be written in or directly referenced to someplace easy to find.
I don't write in anything literary, but any sort of "how to", repair manual, or other technical manuscript gets stuff written in as needed where needed.
I don't write in anything literary, but any sort of "how to", repair manual, or other technical manuscript gets stuff written in as needed where needed.
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