I've been a PBS member for many years and have a decent familiarity with posting guidelines.  However, I received a book over the weekend that has me questioning whether or not if meets PBS posting guidelines.

Beginning with the last page of this MMPB, there's a 1/2" long yellow highlight "stain" on the page edge an inch from to top of the page and continuing on the next 4 pages.  Then the "stain" narrows to the width of a single line of highlighting, still on the page edge only, 1 inch from the top.  It appears a highlighter got too chose to the page edges and accidentally marked them.  The pages impacted with the largest area of "stain" are a preview of another book by the author.  None of the book's text is impacted by the "stain."

If it weren't for the 5 pages with the longer "stain" I'm sure I wouldn't have noticed the issue.  What are your thoughts - postable or not? 

If I received that book I would not be marking it RWAP.

IMHO, it is looking "too hard" to MAKE the book non-postable. IMO, the no-stains rule is more about food stains, and unidentifiable marks, not a highlighter that "ran amoke" on the edge og pages that are not even text of the actual book.

No matter what the size, if they didn't notify you of the highlighting ahead of time, as per the textbook rule, it's RWAP.
 

I think it's fine. It doesn't sound as if it's essentially different from a remainder mark.

If it is on the outer edge of the book which I think you're describing (if I'm visualizing it correctly) I would take one of the large black salon type nail files that you can buy is a drug or grocery store and file it off gently.  I think you'll be able to remove it and it will be postable.  Do not get a red or colored nail file as sometimes the color comes off them.

Others have recommended gently sanding with sandpaper to remove such marks.

Nope, doesn't sound unpostable to me......it doesn't fall within the 'textbook rules' if actual text is not highlighted, underlined or margins written in.

If I'm understanding the description, I would have put it in the same category as a remainder mark.

What Sara said   Writing (highlighting, etc.) is only unpostable on actual text pages.  Non-text or edges (ie remainder marks) does not make it unpostable.

I don't quite understand the description of the stain or marking in the OP, but the book sounds like it's postable.

Thanks for all the feedback - I'm going to mark the book received and postable.

Just to clarify, there's no way the highlighter mark could be filed off the affected pages.  If that was done, there would be an indentation on those page edges that would be worse that the current bright yellow mark.

Ahhh, I received one that the highlighter had bleed deeply into the page edges...like an open highlighter had been pressed into the pages for quite awhile (squished in a backpack together?).  Since this was not just a surface marking, I did wonder if it was postable.