Ms Jackson wishes ostensibly to alert scholars and librarians to the importance of marginalia.

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For all the shrill noise of his scrawled marginalia, Mr Twombly's tone can often be very grand and stentorian.

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Yet cool design and cutesy marginalia can tire, and early gimmickry gave the impression of some kooky after-school project.

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And how are marginalia, so close to the act of reading and so intimately next to the text, different from the reader's diary?

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In fact marginalia have a distinguished history, going back to the scholarly glosses and rubrics for which room was specially left in early manuscripts and, after them, in the first printed books.

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The same pretty much goes for books, in which case you can add a third rule: If the pages feature large font, marginalia and poorly placed color pictures, use it as a door stop.

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On that occasion, they discussed Jamesian marginalia.

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