As I've discussed before, I'm a big fan of books with reader annotations. This recent NPR piece tells the story of a young lady purchasing a copy of White Noise that happened to be annotated by the writer David Markson.
I love this story for two reasons; it tells the history of an object and I'm lucky enough to be friends with the young lady, Annecy Liddell. Listen to it, it's only 5 mins.
As the middle of child of three kids who all went through the same public school, my mother bought one copy of each book from the reading list and made us pass them on to the next kid when he reached that grade. In the vein of margin notes, I used to leave lovely things like "Sucks for your you're stuck in this hell hole" to my little brother every year. haha
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