Writing In Books

I don't really like buying used books because it never really feels like mine. It's always still someone else's book, and I'm just borrowing it for a while. It's a silly neurosis that doesn't prevent me from buying used when there's a significant savings. Invariably, I seem to get the books formerly owned by people who just didn't get it. Their comments are so mundane, worthless, and quite often completely incorrect. In my copy of Ramayana, one girl (I'm making that assumption based on the swoops and swirls in the writing) wrote that a character oversaw the burial of the father. It's a simple summary of what happened on the page. Except for the fact that the father wasn't buried, and burial is not at all common in the culture in which the story is set. I'm guessing she didn't do particularly well on the reading comprehension part of the SAT.