This person got carried away with ‘annotation’.
I read a charming article The Washington Post about a strange new trend.
It seems that countless bloggers and vloggers have a penchant for “annotating” books, that is, underlining favorite passages, scribbling in the margins, and marking pages with sticky notes and paper clips.
My eyes were round as saucers when I read the article. I don’t write in books. I don’t underline with colored markers. I don’t comment in the margins. And I never buy a used book with even light notes.
You also can’t sell a used book with marginalia. In graduate school, my husband and I sold our books to earn our small stipends. We have learned that a clean book is worth more than a book full of notes.
A cockroach once crawled out of one of my husband’s books: Johannes, the shop owner, looked at it witheringly.
Johannes rejected one of my books on the grounds of coffee stains.
As for notes in books, John disapproved of anything beyond the name written on a back page, and he clearly didn’t think it was necessary.
John taught us that books are important objects in themselves. I’ve never seen a book in that store that had writing on it.
It’s not that I’m against annotation, even though I call it marginalia. But I prefer to take notes in a notebook. I write the page number next to my notes.
Step away from the highlighter, ma’am!
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