<p>So you know that area in the front of the text book where you write name and year: I never did it my freshman year. But as I got my alg II book for summer I saw the names of two people who had the book before, and I was like "oh, I know them." I'm gonna start writing my name there, so underclassmen can see mine. Does anyone else think It's kinda cool seeing that you have the textbook of someone you know? It's just a little thing I thought I'd post :)</p>
<p>Yeah I do lol. And I always get screwed up textbooks with names like “Chuck Norris” and “Yo Momma” written in them. This year one of my friends wrote “Jerry Sandusky” in his, so our school really doesn’t look in the textbooks often</p>
<p>We have to because occasionally when someone loses their book they steal someone elses so they don’t get in trouble. They do checks every so often.</p>
<p>I only write my name if the teacher forces us to on the first day.</p>
<p>We are required to.</p>
<p>Yeah, that’s the only reason I do it, haha.</p>
<p>Ever since elementary school it has excited me to receive books previously used by students that I know and/or adore. Sometimes someone will get a book that I’ve used, and then they’ll excitedly tell me :P</p>
<p>We are required to do it as well, and we have to write in the “Condition” column as well. It’s fun to note that the Math and Science textbooks at my school are rather old (like, 8-10 years) but the English and History textbooks are only 2-4 years old. </p>
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<p>My favorite was the one that was in my Chemistry textbook.</p>
<p>Michael Jackson - ISSUED: Black - RETURNED: White</p>
<p>We’re supposed to, but we never actually use our textbooks so it’s moot. </p>
<p>Nobody really writes their names in them, so there’s nothing exciting to be written.</p>
<p>This year I got Breenan Huff’s and Dale Dobacks’s textbooks. Never knew that the guys from the movie Stepbrothers went to my school haha 
In my school, most people write their name, along with 2 or 3 corny joke names.</p>
<p>I do, because I WILL leave it EVERYWHERE, and it’s easier to tell if it belongs to you / for people to return to you. Plus, it’s school policy.</p>
<p>I once got a 40 year old English text issued :)</p>
<p>What I do is draw a picture of a cat in my yearbook.</p>
<p>@ David I’ve got the same Michael Jackson one before lol.
And I’m glad that I’m not the only crazy person who enjoys getting others textbooks. I just wish I had done it my freshman year :(</p>
<p>Lol, I do sign my textbooks.</p>
<p>The dumbest textbook I’ve ever gotten had Justin Bieber and Zac Efron “sign” it, causing much debate as to whether or not Zac Efron actually attended our school. Sigh.</p>
<p>My school makes us buy our books so I just draw all over it. Everyone knows it’s mine because it has hundreds of doodles inside of it. Lol.
For the books we get from the state the teacher usually numbers them and assigns them to us so they’ll know if they get ours back at the end of the year.</p>
<p>If some one takes it, it’s our loss I guess.</p>
<p>I always have. This year I crossed my name out of my APES book because I spilled coffee and diet coke on it and was embarrassed.</p>
<p>If you loose your books and don’t pay for them you can’t graduate or get report cards/transcripts at my school, and seeing as lost books cost between $75 and $300 each to replace, you can bet my name and teacher’s name is in them so they get returned when I misplace them!</p>
<p>I got the Michael Jackson one too, definitely made my day.
Our school never checks them, but I always sign my name hoping either a friend or some totally awed freshman will get my book (: It does happen every now and then. A girl in my math class wrote her name in every single textbook in the class and it always confuses the newbies for the first week. “omg, I got her book AGAIN!! like, I keep getting it oh my gawd”</p>
<p>We have to. In one of mine, I was the onlyvperson not from a certain family to get that book… By a stroke of luck, two brothers were issued the same book. I thought that was kinda’ neat(:</p>
<p>I didn’t, except to be funny. No real point.</p>