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Annotation is, of course, one of the most basic and important ways we have to tailor a document to particular circumstances of use. . . . We may write on a memo or a printed copy of an e-mail message, then fax the annotated copy to someone else. Or we m

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Annotation is, of course, one of the most basic and important ways we have to tailor a document to particular circumstances of use. . . . We may write on a memo or a printed copy of an e-mail message, then fax the annotated copy to someone else. Or we may write in the margins of a book we're reading, or highlight the text with a colored marker.

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