Posts tagged marginalia

uispeccoll:

A patron was using this wonderful book one day, and it is a good thing to as I might never have come across it! Check out this 1668 copy of German Almanac Alt und neuer Schreib- Haus- und Kunst-Kalender… which is full of doodles, notes, and other marginalia. 

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-Lindsay M.

Contest Time!

litreactor:

litreactor:

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Like many of you, I write in my books as I read, making note of favorite passages, adding side comments and insights, and even writing in the occasional expletive when a favorite character dies (looking at you, George R.R. Martin). 

Well, LitReactor wants to see your annotations and margin notes! As an example, I’ve included a photo of a page from my personal copy of Finnegans Wake by James Joyce.  

Here are the rules:

  • Send us an image of either your most heavily annotated pages or your most interesting annotations. 
  • If the book title and author aren’t clear in the image, make sure to include them in your submission.
  • The deadline for submission is Friday, March 13th, 2015
  • Prizes include a copy of the new Jonathan Lethem collection, Lucky Alan, and a copy of the new TPB of Frog Music by Emma Donoghue. 
  • The winner will have first choice from the prizes and the runner up will receive the remaining book. 

You can submit your photos to the tumblr or tweet them to us using #annotatedcontest 

Can’t wait to see what you come up with!

Don’t forget to submit!

Reminder to send in your submissions! 

There are books in which the footnotes or comments scrawled by some reader’s hand in the margin are more interesting than the text. The world is one of these books.

hogwartsradio:

Photos of J.K. Rowling’s notes in rare ‘Philosopher’s Stone’ book released

The Guardian has published photos of three pages containing a sketch and handwritten notes by J.K. Rowling from a first edition… READ MORE

theartofgooglebooks:

Marginalia, in the truest sense; annotation in the margin.

From various pages of Sacrosancti et Oecumenici Concilii Tridentini (1557). [Here]