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Every note a curator has left beside a book. The shortest reviews on IBDB, and often the most useful.

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“I do not annotate comics. I annotated this.”
on Mausin Books I Have Ruined With Pencil @annotatedannie
“The corridor. Just the corridor.”
on House of Leavesin Houses That Are The Villain @bleakhouse_bex
“The only funny one on the list.”
on Don Quixotein A Chapter A Week, For A Year @the_slow_reader
“Ten out of ten, literally.”
on And Then There Were Nonein Nobody Gets Out @grimdarkgareth
“A narrator who cannot afford to be clever about himself.”
on The Remains of the Dayin Novels That Argue With Themselves @theodore_p
“Always. Every year.”
on The Diary of a Young Girlin The Shelf By The Door @margaretreads
“Marian Halcombe deserved better and got a sequel nobody reads.”
on The Woman in Whitein Nineteenth Century, Twenty-First Century Feelings @plainjaneausten
“Oxen of the Sun. Put it down with respect.”
on Ulyssesin Did Not Finish, No Regrets @dnf_diaries
“Smiley solves it and it costs him the last thing he had.”
on Tinker Tailor Soldier Spyin Detectives Who Are No Help At All @verity_lane
“The chestnut sequence is accurate down to the blight.”
on The Overstoryin Books With The Botany Right @dr_bramble
“Two notebooks and fourteen months.”
on Godel, Escher, Bachin Books I Have Ruined With Pencil @annotatedannie
“Took me a year. Would take me a year again.”
on Godel, Escher, Bachin How Things Actually Get Built @ivor_stack
“Eight books, eight weeks if you are brisk. I was not brisk.”
on Middlemarchin A Chapter A Week, For A Year @the_slow_reader
“Two years. The whaling chapters are the reward.”
on Moby-Dickin Four Pages A Night @thebigsleepy
“A book about networks that happens to be about fungi.”
on Entangled Lifein How Things Actually Get Built @ivor_stack
“nonfiction, and it reads like the best of these.”
on Other Mindsin Hard SF That Respects Your Time @kepler22b
“A narrator cleverer than everyone and generous to all of them.”
on Middlemarchin Novels That Argue With Themselves @theodore_p
“High Place. The mould is doing the plotting.”
on Mexican Gothicin Houses That Are The Villain @bleakhouse_bex
“Nine months. Do not recommend, but we got there.”
on The Way of Kingsin Four Pages A Night @thebigsleepy
“For the ones who were the first in their family to go.”
on Pachinkoin The Shelf By The Door @margaretreads
“You know why.”
on The Murder of Roger Ackroydin Detectives Who Are No Help At All @verity_lane
“On the list under protest. It is nasty. It is little.”
on The Troopin Nasty Little Books I Love @bleakhouse_bex
“Long, not short. Cold enough to earn a place.”
on Independent Peoplein Short And Cold @saltmarsh
“the ideas are the whole reason to put up with the people.”
on The Three-Body Problemin Ideas Before Plot @kepler22b