Thread: Marginalia - How do you deal with it?
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Old 07-10-2009, 09:40 AM   #1
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Marginalia - How do you deal with it?
The thing that I just can't get around regarding superiority of real books to ebooks is marginalia - writing things out on the side, making comments at the end of a chapter and seeing this interspersed with the text.

It is true that the Amazon allows underlining and annotation. Underlining works well - it is apparent when you read the text and is fast and easy to do. Annotations... not so much. I've had all three Kindles but none of them do this quickly or easily (and w/the DX it is almost totally worthless - takes a lot for me to even touch the keyboard).

So what do you do? Or do you at all?

I've been thinking of getting a large moleskine and recording marginalia in it as I read.
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