College professor Pamela Newton wrote this article purporting to explicate a flaw in the Kindle (and in e-readers, in general). The flaw, it turns out, is the difficulty and awkwardness involved in annotating volumes.

While she uses the far more studious sounding “annotation,” as opposed to the dilettantish “marginalia,” it amounts to the same thing.

I have never done much writing on the pages of my books, yet now it seems to the raison d’etre du jour for bemoaning the rise of e-readers.