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_refugee_ · 3637 days ago · link · · parent · post: For everyone in the book exchange: The Necessity of Marginalia
I will say for one that I turn to books often when no other option is present - for instance, when I have no Wifi or data signal. I had to travel a lot via train for work this summer and the wifi never worked, and I read a lot then. So sometimes, Google and so on aren't available to look up "hey is this a reference" or so on, and by the time one has returned to the modern world the moment has been lost and the reading has gone on (the narrative, so engrossing!) and the question hangs forever. Or at least for a long time until one gets bored and decides to look up the book on Wikipedia, or what-have-you. Also, it can be fun to do the analysis oneself :)