Not long ago I wrote a post about (among other things) the value of marginal annotations of books, and lo and behold, here's a wonderful little essay on the same subject by Daniel Kalder, of Lost Cosmonaut fame, who discovered a quirkily fascinating friend in the margins of "an account of an Austrian adventurer's clandestine journey through the states of Soviet Central Asia in the mid 1920s."
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
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Commentary on technologies of reading, writing, research, and, well, knowledge. As these technologies change and develop, what do we lose, what do we gain, what is (fundamentally or trivially) altered? And, not least, what's fun?
Alan Jacobs
Alan Jacobs is a professor of English at Wheaton College and the author, most recently, of The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction. His online commonplace book is here.
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