id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-15533 Garrett, Jeffrey Jackson, H. J. Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books. New Haven, Conn., and London: Yale Univ. Pr., 2001. 324p. $27.95, alk. paper (ISBN 0300088167). LC 00-043721. 2002-05-01 3 .pdf application/pdf 2554 177 51 Historically, librarians have had little tol- erance for notes scribbled in book mar- gins, seeing no pardonable difference be- tween them and other forms of book defacement. For example, 2,700 years ago, Ashurbanipal’s librarians called down the wrath of Adad and Ishtar on the heads of tablet defacers, and dur- ing the Middle Ages, monastic librarians placed “anathemas” (curses) and other drastic injunctions in books to dissuade potential abusers. cache/crl-15533.pdf txt/crl-15533.txt