I kept a few major anthologies (Chaucer, Shakespeare, American Literature) in which I had written in the margins. The works in my Chaucer anthology were published in Middle English and I had translated nearly the entire anthology word-for-word (or phrase-by-phrase), and all of my writing books (creative writing, style books and handbooks, editing, etc.).
Interestingly, I have referred to many of my college "text books" at some point over the past 20 years for both work and personal writing.
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