Expert marginalia is an argument with the author — agreement marks are the signature of naive reading.
Jackson’s survey found archivists and scholars value annotated copies displaying “engaged hostility” most highly. Worth noting the survivorship: we only study the margins of people who became worth studying.
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example-of →Surface disagreement instead of hiding it — being wrong quietly costs far more than being corrected loudly.The same principle applied to a text instead of a room: surfaced disagreement is where the thinking happens, and suppressed disagreement is expensive precisely because it is comfortable.