Reader's marks, annotations, and traces across centuries
"Pride and Prejudice"
early 20th century · Annotated by a retired soldier
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│ ...All that glitters... │
│ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ │
│ ⊕ ● ● │
│ ...and so the passage continues, with the │
│ reader's tiny compressed notes filling the margins... │
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│ ├─────────────────────────────────┤ "true" "never again" "sic" "true" │
│ │ [text block] [text block] │ │
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│ └─────────────────────────────────┘ │
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│ [page 151] │
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"This passage was read at our wedding."
Between pages 151 and 152: a marginal sketch of a face
"This book belongs to"
— before everything changed