/lit/ - Literature

>>2346655
Get over it.

Marginal notes are older than books themselves and have worthy histories.

They give the page personality. My books are covered in them.

I will never forget the note left to me in one of Atkins' Chemistry books, saying (is feminine handwriting): "Fellow Chemistry student, Hang in there!"

Jokes on them, I don't even study Chemistry.

They're in every book I borrow from the University library. Sometimes they annoy me hugely, other time I find them to be insightful.
I rarely leave my own because I don't particularly like defacing books but sometimes I can't help myself.

>>2346669

that's not a very good story. I hope you don't tell it to other people

I like reading notes in books, until it gets to the point where it obscures the text. Also, when someone underlines ever line for a couple pages. Lrn2 note.

>>2346672
haha you're pretty cool

>>2346655
what book is that from? sounds interesting, ive thought about this before. i've got quite a few books with blood on the pages. seriously.

>>2346667
this is true but postits are more practical. they don;t deface and book and if you stick on the page you it acts as a bookmark.

>>2346672
I do not tell stories, but share experiences.

>>2346677
i love library textbooks where people have highlighted stuff except where they highlight irrelevant things or they highlight the whole page or chapter defeating the purpose.

>>2346681

does not sound interesting. Just because you can touch pages doesn't make them automatically erotic.

sexual fallacy.

nostalgia, nostalgia blah blah blah we're going to hell in a handbasket but I'm telling you all the superficial stuff about the journey.

>>2346693
>sexual fallacy.
>phallus
Hurr hurr hurr.

>>2346693
I didn't say it sounded interesting to you, or to anyone besides myself for that matter. I do prefer paper copies but not because of any obsession with the physical or historical. This is just a different perspective from my own which reminded me that there are many red blobs in the books on my shelf :P

Analytical notes are fine, but it really annoys me when people add a running commentary of jocose observations to the margins, under the misapprehension that they're somehow adding the experience of future readers. They're no better than a heckling nigger at a cinema.

Marginalia can make a great anthropological contribution to those even in the near future. But for the most part, it's annoying. Still, I know a guy who's teaching an entire class on marginalia. We had a great conversation a few weeks ago about whether these little notes are possible in a world of ebooks, which they basically aren't, probably. I don't use ereaders so I don't know.

It's mostly useful when looking at a certain persons specific library, and determining their influences and opinions by reading the marginalia they put in their books.

I have never in my life written marginal notes and I don't really see why you would want them for a novel. Surely anything you noticed the first time through you'd notice on a re-reading

>>2346729
Notes similar to marginalia is completely possible on e-readers. It highlights a section and lets you add any note you wish. It also crates a separate section that lets you search the book by your notes and highlights.

So my grandfather started a journal. He wrote one time in it every year (starting form when he was like thirty). A page is the max. But anyways, after he died, it went to my father (the last child, thats how my grandfather set it up). And my father has been writing in it one time every year. After he dies, I will get the journal. But anyways, the margins of it are filled with comments from the entire family, anyone in the family can read it and write something in the margins (within reason).

Its a really cool family tradition. I am worried about getting it because my handwriting is so ugly... oh well. It will be another 20 years before I get it probably.

It's extremely irritating, particularly when people write their fucking shit in library books that don't belong to them. I don't give a shit about some first year student's opinion on whether that academic is "wrong" and why.

>>2346740
But I think the point is that they won't last as long as written marginalia, nor are ereaders really going to pass through the hands of many separate readers. The ebook notes are basically only for your own eyes.

>>2346744
that's so gay, like it was a part of some mawkish children's movie.

>>2346744
You should make some sort of copies before a plumbing leak or broken space heater get to it.

Notes are fine paragraphs of underlining are not; just write down the page number fuckface

>>2346757
The cloud.
The Cloud!
THE CLOUD!
Or in layman terms: They can be saved online attached to a particular book unique number and have the reader software be able to download and display them, letting you select the ones by specific people or at random.

>>2346760
It isn't like a sentimental book. Both my grandfather and father are historians. My grandfather wrote a book for our entire family explaining our heritage in gross detail for the last 600 years or so. >mfw 4 volumes. He's a weird guy.

But yeah the yearly message is mostly like important things that happened that year in the family, and sometimes a word of advice.