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javagerty avatar
Subject: Postable?
Date Posted: 12/31/2011 10:59 PM ET
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I have a HB book that has a sharpie dot on the edge outside of the page. It is about the size of a pea....would that be postable? Thanks for the help!
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Date Posted: 12/31/2011 11:03 PM ET
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That would be postable.  Sounds like a remainder mark, which is acceptable.

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Date Posted: 12/31/2011 11:37 PM ET
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Unless the ink bleeds well into the pages, this mark should not make the book unpostable.

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Date Posted: 1/1/2012 6:15 PM ET
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If you don't mind McKenna, here's a book I received recently. I didn't know what to make of the spreading ink marks, and fortunately didn't have to decide RWAP based on these alone.   The book is unpostable for several other reasons.

My question, on their own would these ink marks make the book unpostable?

http://i984.photobucket.com/albums/ae324/Denni/2-013.jpg



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javagerty avatar
Subject: mine look to that, but smaller and not so bled into the page
Date Posted: 1/1/2012 6:27 PM ET
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Date Posted: 1/1/2012 6:59 PM ET
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My question, on their own would these ink marks make the book unpostable?

No.  If that was the only thing wrong with the book, it would be postable.  From the help docs: "Page edges: remainder marks are OK.  A name written on the page edges is okay (if it does not bleed in and obscure text on the text pages)"

http://www.paperbackswap.com/help/search.php?terms=remainder+mark#textbooks