Readers on TikTok and Instagram are making the aesthetics of reading more visible than ever with creative, and often intricate, annotations. Called marginalia, these markups can be elaborate, with notes that nearly fill full pages and that are color-coordinated with the book’s cover. She created a unique edition of Tom Lake for dedicated deep readers, in which she included her own annotations on her own writing style. As writer and editor Caitlin Welsh pointed out in a Guardian article covering the recent trend, the kids like annotating. (I may be overly romanticizing secondhand books, but there’s nothing more intimate than finding a previous reader’s favorite kissing scene.)