Unlikely as it may sound, the study of such annotations is a recognized academic specialty, albeit an arcane one. There’s even a word for them, “marginalia,” coined by the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge ...

Marginalia is having a moment. While many people consider it sacrilege to write — whether with pencil or pen — in the blank spots on the pages of a print book, there are also those who celebrate the ...

Readers are sharing how they write their predictions into novels, colour-code their emotional responses and even gift annotated books to friends. Is it actually fun, or just a bit like homework? There ...

Do you write in the margins of books? Have you borrowed a book from a friend and curiously read any thoughts they penned in the margins? Have you written notes or underlined passages in religious ...

To the many reasons we have for admiring Marlene Dietrich can now be added the fact that she was an inveterate scribbler in books. In a volume describing the love affair between Laurence Olivier and ...