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Serious readers miss the experience of being gifted a book by a friend – with their inscription and/or marginalia – or buying one from the bookstore with mysterious and sometimes enlightening marks.
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Do they now? Do "serious" readers really enjoy other people's writing in the margins? I find this profoundly arrogant. If you prefer books that aren't written in you're not a serious reader? With an e-book, I can turn on or off people's highlights. E-books are not isolating at all, regardless of the format we read, we can still discuss the book, it's the same book in paper or e-book. It's not as easy to share, true, but when you try to shove books on people, they seldom read them.
I do not reject an e-book being text on a screen, I embrace it. It's the best way to read the author's words. I'm not interested in someone else's scribblings.