Smiles can begat smiles.

Found in copy of "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism" by Max Weber.

You must be this drunk to read this book...

Found in "The Bookseller of Kabul" by Asne Seierstad, because Americans can't even begin to think about Afghanistan while sober...

The people are aliens...

Found in "Phosphor in Dreamland" by Rikki Ducornet.

I am not making this one up.

I swear on the Jewish Bible that we found this receipt for window tinting in a copy of Bram Stroker's "Dracula." I know that sounds unbelievable, but we did. Did someone put it there purposely as a joke? I don't know. Did a real life dracula take his car into the shop while reading about his forefather? I don't know.

Boston Bookmark

"Bookmahk" post-it note found in copy of "Listening to Whales: What the Orcas Have Taught Us" by Alexandra Morton.

Ouch

Our first guest submission! From archivist (and drummer) Sarah Norris (http://www.beevsmoth.com/, New Music Co-op, etc), remains of squished insect found inside "Texas Court of Appeals Reports, vol VI," 1879, as reported by A.M. Jackson and A.M. Jackson, Jr. Is this an antique bug, or a new bug in an antique book? 

The only notes needed...

Notes from "The Succubus" by Vlado Žabot