To annotate is to engage in whispered dialogue with the dead. The hand tracing notes in the margin is shaking hands across time, reaching into the past to argue, to marvel, to collaborate.
Electronic books purport to supply mechanisms for annotation, but they lose the art of it, the scrawl that wraps around two arrows pointing out different passages. Annotating a physical book is a journey.
I am grateful to myself when re/reading favorite tomes to see my past thoughts in the margins. It\s almost like having a conversation with my younger and older self.
I am always thrilled to find a handwritten annotation. Your essay is perfect.
This is another great argument for reading physical books rather than books on devices.
Electronic books purport to supply mechanisms for annotation, but they lose the art of it, the scrawl that wraps around two arrows pointing out different passages. Annotating a physical book is a journey.
I am grateful to myself when re/reading favorite tomes to see my past thoughts in the margins. It\s almost like having a conversation with my younger and older self.
Agreed. Same here!