Rereading old favourites
What changes when you return to a book ten years later.
Reading, slowly
Notes in
the margins.
Scribbles, underlines and half-formed thoughts from the books on my nightstand.
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Pencil marks, mostly
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Why some sentences ask to be marked and others do not.
Unfinished books, honestly
A short defence of putting a book down halfway.
Why this exists
Reading is better with a pencil.
Marginalia is where the notes from my margins end up once the book goes back on the shelf. Some of it is useful, most of it is just for me.