“It was Coleridge, a compulsive book scribbler, who first called it marginalia. Lamb would lend books to Coleridge, and they would come back annotated. Rather than being upset with his friend, Lamb valued such personal jottings. Other well documented marginalists… — Pradeep Sebastian Copy Share Image
“The first book to use the term ‘science fiction’ in the title was also a vintage paperback, an anthology called The Pocket Book of… — Pradeep Sebastian Copy Share Image
“One of the (uncontemplated) pleasures of childhood and adolescence was how rigorously we exchanged comics and books with our buddies. As adults we seem… — Pradeep Sebastian Copy Share Image
“We learn that the lowly footnote is not really a lowly paratext in Anthony Grafton’s The Footnote; A Curious History and Chuck Zerby’s The… — Pradeep Sebastian Copy Share Image
“Eric Waschke, a bookseller obsessed with far-flung bookshops – he’s visited three thousand bookstores across 53 countries, an odyssey to explore ‘the known book… — Pradeep Sebastian Copy Share Image
“My earliest memory of imaginative and intellectual pleasure (though I didn’t know that then) as a child was the ritual walk I took every… — Pradeep Sebastian Copy Share Image
“It was Coleridge, a compulsive book scribbler, who first called it marginalia. Lamb would lend books to Coleridge, and they would come back annotated.… — Pradeep Sebastian Copy Share Image
