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By: goldmag.de » Blog Archiv » Notizen im Buch im digitalen Zeitalter: Warum sie verschwinden und was sie uns sagen können

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:37:25 +0000

[...] hält der Blogger Nick O’Leary schon jetzt bereit: eine Ausgabe des Spionage-Thrillers The Content Assignment, von Holly Roth (Penguin Books, 1954). Die Handlung ist im Kalten Krieg angesiedelt und [...]

By: John Meadows

John Meadows — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:51:19 +0000

Looking at the marginalia, to me it seems like a retro version of SideWiki. I love old marginalia — it makes physical copy of a book unique.

By: BindingLogic

BindingLogic — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:27:27 +0000

This is soooo cute and v interesting. I love that you have introduced us to a whole other level of the book and really a character (a reader) in the days before internet, email and now wave. I have often picked a secondhand copy of books by the annotations that it contain over another copies of the book beside it on the shelf. This is a characteristic of the way we read that will be lost with electronic books (kindles & nookes) thus these forms of book treasures will not kick around for other generations to find and query. You definitely have a *book angel* keeping watch over you. Thank you for this interesting entry.

By: Ben Babcock

Ben Babcock — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:23:09 +0000

I was thinking about this on the weekend as well. I discovered that a page in my Partial Differential Equations textbook, which I bought used online, has a phone number with the name “Zena” written below it. The previous owner’s name and phone number are written on the inside cover, and his phone number has the same area code as Zena’s. It made me conjecture the history of the phone number, and hence the physical book. Did the owner jot down her number as she told him it in order to remember? Did she write her number in his book, hoping he’d call?

I love eBooks, but it’s this sort of incidental content that physical books acquire that makes them unique–and convinces me that print books will never die.

By: Stop Press for November 13th | booktwo.org

Stop Press for November 13th | booktwo.org — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:05:45 +0000

[...] The Content Assignment – knolleary Finding other people#039;s (hilarious) annotations [...]

By: Shauna Hicks

Shauna Hicks — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:48:52 +0000

Really enjoyed reading this. Shows how annotations can add value to what might be an otherwise boring record. Not that I have read the book. Thanks

By: nick

nick — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:24:34 +0000

Thanks Adrian – now you point it out, it seems obvious.

Funny you should mention bkkeepr… but let’s save that thought for a future post…

By: Adrian McEwen

Adrian McEwen — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:04:07 +0000

Superb. She should get her own Bkkeepr account

I think her first name is Gwladys not Gioladys. Still not a common spelling, but quite well known in my neck of the woods because the Gwladys Street end is one of the stands at Goodison Park – http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&ll=53.439394,-2.964817&spn=0.002176,0.005466&t=h&z=18