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Originally Posted by OtterBooks
From the first article: "And what about the serendipity of sharing your thoughts, and being informed by the thoughts of others, from the messages in shared books?"
Yes, serendipity is exactly what I feel when I buy a used book and discover someone has written "OMG so true" and "??????" next to entire paragraphs they've underlined. No wait, not serendipity, rage.
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I once bought a copy of some Chekhov short stories second-hand.
In the last few pages someone had scrawled, in a type-face large enough to cover a double-page spread and using a fat-tip purple felt pen, 'She likes a piece of cake, to clear her belly-ache'.
I don't think the loss of such textual analysis is a great price to pay for migration to the digital age.