Instagram is full of annotated pages, complete with underlines, post-its, and impassioned scribbles. On TikTok, readers film themselves reacting in real time, pen in hand. Even published authors are weighing in, sharing how marginal notes shaped their early reading lives.
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Saturday, 6 September 2025
The annotated life: Why marginalia is back in style
Marginalia, you either love it or hate it. Once considered the mark of a disrespectful reader, someone scribbling on the pristine pages of novels, marginalia has returned with an unexpected flourish.
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active reading,
annotating books,
book annotations,
book lovers,
Bookish Trends,
Hanya Yanagihara,
Joan Didion,
literary culture,
Maggie Nelson,
marginalia,
Ocean Vuong,
Reading Habits,
Toni Morrison
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