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Valuable scribblings on the margins, endangered in a digital age

By Dirk Johnson | New York Times | Updated: 2011-03-13 07:58

Valuable scribblings on the margins, endangered in a digital age

Valuable scribblings on the margins, endangered in a digital age

CHICAGO - Marginalia, the custom of writing comments in books, is a rich literary pastime. But it has an uncertain fate in a digitalized world.

"People will always find a way to annotate electronically," said G. Thomas Tanselle, a former vice president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and an adjunct professor of English at Columbia University in New York. "But there is the question of how it is going to be preserved. And that is a problem now facing collections libraries."

These are the sorts of matters pondered by the Caxton Club, a literary group founded in 1895.

Valuable scribblings on the margins, endangered in a digital age

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