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veen  ·  3364 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: For everyone in the book exchange: The Necessity of Marginalia

Why do you consider it something 'so low'? Do you mind much if others do share their thought by writing in the margin, or to highlight phrases?





user-inactivated  ·  3364 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It drives me nuts for a variety of probably irrational reasons.

    Do you mind much if others do share their thought by writing in the margin, or to highlight phrases?

Yes, if I somehow end up reading their copy.

Complexity  ·  3363 days ago  ·  link  ·  
user-inactivated  ·  3363 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Couldn't be more wrong! :)

It's fascinating. At that point, though, it's not a copy of a DeLillo/whatever -- it's a sort of exegesis of DFW that happens to take place in book setting. I'd never be able to, I don't know, read the DeLillo book as itself, while also absorbing the annotations. Terrible.

Sort of like making a sedan into drivable art, which was briefly a huge fad in Austin. Enjoyable to drive by once but a pain in the ass to sit next to for an hour or, god forbid, drive.