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<blockquote data-quote="Esau Cairn" data-source="post: 8238454" data-attributes="member: 7025315">There is an entire field of academic research which involves studying the marginalia of what authors have written in the books they read and research. Personally, I find such notes and notations of some authors to be far more fascinating than the fiction they produce.Through more than half my life, I never even stamped an intaglio in any of my books; I was furious when my mother wrote my name in a couple of books she sent to me when I was a freshman in boarding school. Then I read Nabokov and was compelled by the words to begin marking the most glorious sentences in the history of English language literature, along with notes and references and allusions to other works.After that, marking my rpg books was not only inevitable, but became worth hours saved during game play. Those with pages that could be marked. Sticking tabs on glossy pages is about as far as the medium effectively allows.Of course, in recent decades, using pdfs provides the best of both world; perfect copies and the ability to mark them up with notes and tabs, etc. But pdfs aren't a well-thumbed book nor can they ever be.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Esau Cairn, post: 8238454, member: 7025315"] There is an entire field of academic research which involves studying the marginalia of what authors have written in the books they read and research. Personally, I find such notes and notations of some authors to be far more fascinating than the fiction they produce. Through more than half my life, I never even stamped an intaglio in any of my books; I was furious when my mother wrote my name in a couple of books she sent to me when I was a freshman in boarding school. Then I read Nabokov and was compelled by the words to begin marking the most glorious sentences in the history of English language literature, along with notes and references and allusions to other works. After that, marking my rpg books was not only inevitable, but became worth hours saved during game play. Those with pages that could be marked. Sticking tabs on glossy pages is about as far as the medium effectively allows. Of course, in recent decades, using pdfs provides the best of both world; perfect copies and the ability to mark them up with notes and tabs, etc. But pdfs aren't a well-thumbed book nor can they ever be. [/QUOTE]

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