I like to annotate almost everything I read. Just another way to interact with the story/information.
I have a couple of old medical texts that are fancy leather hardcovers with gold leaf detailing and page edges so I don’t want do dog ears and write on the pages themselves.
Currently I am just writing notes on my phones note pad but I really do not like how it is fragmented from the text itself.
This leaves sticky notes as a solution however I wanted to check the internet to see if the glue from the sticky notes can become damaging with time. I didn’t find anything on google listing any undesirable consequences but most articles did not seem to consider sticky notes in particularly fragile books. Only saw their use in newer prints.
by meowmeowMIXER8
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If sticky note residue is an issue for you I’d probably recommend writing your notes on a piece of paper with the page number/line number of what you’re annotating. I used to do that growing up in high school. Couldn’t afford to buy the books and they wouldn’t let me write in library books after the 1984 fiasco (long story, librarian HATED me afterwards), so I would annotate on sheets of paper and add the page and para number e.g. (P16/L24: blah blah blah blah). P Is paragraph, L is line. Worked pretty well