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[darchildre]

To my surprise, one of my favorite things about my Kindle (yeah, I'm still all "bwee!" over here) is the ability to leave notes on what I'm reading. I mean, I know that I am actually allowed to write in books that I own, but I can never bring myself to do it. Writing in books is wrong and remains wrong, no matter what I tell myself and no matter how much I enjoy other people's marginalia at times. I occasionally try with post-it notes, but I never remember to bring them with me when I go anywhere. My only really consistent system is dog-earing pages that I want to come back to, whether to figure out the meaning of a word, or look at a particular line again, or hunt down a certain reference. It's not very efficient, as I generally have to read the whole page again to find out what I thought was worth marking.

But with my Kindle, I can just type a note. And it shows up as a little footnote marker that isn't distracting. And it doesn't disfigure or destroy anything, because it's just an electronic file anyway. I'm reading Dracula for the book group and I can write little jokey asides about homoeroticism or make notes for my continuing ridiculous mental fanfic that I will never actually write down or highlight things that I want to remember for the discussion and I feel no guilt at all. In fact, I am ridiculously excited about it.

(Other things that I surprisingly awesome about the Kindle: how Star Trek it is. Truly, my friends, we are living in The Future.)