Will old Kindles also have a distinguishing odor that suggests research, history, familiarity?*

*Likewise, one of the best aspects of doing research at the Clark was being able to look at beautifully bound material dating back five hundred years or more and – there, right there – seeing marginalia in scripts that put my handwriting to shame. Seeing people historically dialogue with the same text I was working with suddenly helped place me in a continuing communal dialogue across time. As I jotted notes on my laptop, I knew that, years ago, someone else was also communicating through the English Reformation-era poetry that my research focused on. And will this dialogue within marginalia (more frequently in library books with notes that are either confounding or mind-blowing) end if the Kindle-ers have their way?