Many persons find highlighting or annotating a book (with a permanent ink!) to be a crime against these wonderful creatures. You may avow that the book is only for your use, but what about the person after you?

I think it adds character. A reader years from now can see what I thought was important or marked in the marginalia and maybe get some insight.

I should add though, that I only mark up textbooks or favorite volumes. I keep a small notebook nearby for musings when I read ordinary stuff that I only intend to read once and then pass on or sell.

A book has a holy status, and transcends humanity because many have outlasted lifetimes, if cherished or cared for. Many persons find highlighting or annotating a book (with a permanent ink!) to be a crime against these wonderful creatures. You may avow that the book is only for your use, but what about the person after you? What makes you so bold as to assert certain lines as prominent? Transplant them in a lovely notebook, a quotebook, or use a light pencil in the margin, my dear friends.

I won't even think about writing in library books or else I'll unleash a tirade. I smolder and fume every time I see a library book abused...

On the contrary, take your Golden Pigs for a trot across a printout, a newspaper. But evade volumes!

I still wouldn't do this to library books though... to me, it would seem like a form of vandalism. Sneeky vandalism, I suppose.

Anyone know what the grease that is used to create the seal is?

Can any grease be used? Vaseline?

Is Noodler's coming up with a Year of the Rat ink?

Generally, I consider highlighting or underlining an abomination and avoid books defaced in this way when possible. One exception was when I picked up a used copy of The Education of Henry Adams which had every single word in the entire book underlined. That, I thought, was pretty cool.

Noodler's distributes UV ink for the purpose of marking pro-Western messages in Chinese library books. It was the impetus for the creation of Blue Ghost and YotGP.

The Chinese Communist party banned all displays of any materials relating to the Golden Year of the Pig - a very highly regarded and popular holiday for the Chinese people. This was not the only violation of human freedoms of expression and speech that the founder of Noodler's Ink found to be disturbing enough to act upon... Thus every dissident group that would listen, respond to pleas, and assist in bringing various invisible inks to dissidents within China itself was contacted. In particular, a golden invisible ink was made due to its double political and visual meanings relating to the golden year celebrations...and approximately three dozen bottles made it to mainland China and were brought to people in libraries and universities for use upon communist texts by the likes of Mao Tse Tung....Karl Marx, Engles, the usual perpetrators of communist ideology.... Most other bottles of various invisible inks were confiscated by the communists, including many "Blue Ghost", golden, and white invisible inks produced for the purpose of promoting freedom for people who lack freedom, in general. However, many bottles survived and remain in Tibet, Beijing, and several places that will never be named in public.

"The Year of the Golden Pig" label artwork was made with freedom from communist tyranny in mind. The art depicts a communist pig - the subject of the party's ban in state media - wearing a Mao suit and holding Mao's red book, waving the communist flag and standing proudly before the main hall of the Forbidden City. The lion guards are instead giant catfish guards...as is a Noodler's tradition. The Chinese character for the Year of the Pig appears on the label. The rest of the text is self-explanatory...although a spelling error exists upon the first 140 bottles due to a direct quote from a Chinese dissident. Later bottles do not spell "intolerance" with two L's. The ink is water based, pH neutral, archival....it strongly resists bleach, UV light, carpet cleaners, solvents, the usual tools of forgers...and in general is the bulletproof version of "Firefly". An eyedropper filled highlighter pen with fully visual ink chamber is included with each bottle. Given the costs per disposable highlighters and the average word count per given volume of ink - this re-useable highlighter is extremely competitive (in several cases representing savings of more than $215 equivalent) with even the most aggressively priced disposable highlighters on the market. Noodler's Ink hopes this offering offers you both savings for your wallet, the environment...and a little humor at the expense of the Chinese Communist Party. Each bottle contains approximately enough ink to refill the highlighter pen 30 to 35 times (depending upon how full you chose to fill the pen barrel) - and each pen holds far more ink than most pens on the market today.

A book has a holy status, and transcends humanity because many have outlasted lifetimes, if cherished or cared for. Many persons find highlighting or annotating a book (with a permanent ink!) to be a crime against these wonderful creatures. You may avow that the book is only for your use, but what about the person after you? What makes you so bold as to assert certain lines as prominent? Transplant them in a lovely notebook, a quotebook, or use a light pencil in the margin, my dear friends.

I won't even think about writing in library books or else I'll unleash a tirade. I smolder and fume every time I see a library book abused...

On the contrary, take your Golden Pigs for a trot across a printout, a newspaper. But evade volumes!