Writing in books is shocking, annoying and intriguing. During the past few centuries, book annotations have garnered a small devoted following while being discounted by just about everyone else as nothing more than graffiti. Today, writing in books, or marginalia as it is often called, is a hot topic among academics and rare book collectors who are taking a closer look at people's book scribbles as windows into the relationship between readers and authors. While reading a book might seem like a private experience, writing in books gives us an inside look at how a book was perceived in its own time and subsequent generations. This short documentary reveals that the story of writing in books is the story of all of us.—Anonymous