In Salon, Laura Miller rhapsodizes on the joys of reading with a pen in your hand: "Marginalia is a blow struck against the idea that reading is a one-way process, that readers simply open their minds and the great, unmediated thoughts of the author pour in. In reality, reading is always a collaboration between reader and author, and even the basic act of underlining a passage represents a moment in the individual, unrepeatable experience that one person had with one book on one particular day. The underlining itself reminds us of that." (Read more here)
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