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Will old Kindles also have a distinguishing odor that suggests research, history, familiarity?*<\/p>\n

*Likewise, one of the best aspects of doing research at the Clark<\/a> was being able to look at beautifully bound material dating back five hundred years or more and \u2013 there, right there \u2013 seeing marginalia in scripts that put my handwriting to shame. Seeing people historically dialogue with the same text I was working with suddenly helped place me in a continuing communal dialogue across time. As I jotted notes on my laptop, I knew that, years ago, someone else was also communicating through the English Reformation-era poetry that my research focused on. And will this dialogue within marginalia (more frequently in library books with notes that are either confounding or mind-blowing) end if the Kindle-ers have their way?<\/p>\n

Tell people this is awesome:<\/h3>