Is taking notes and highlighting in a Hebrew/English Tanakh considered defacing the text?
So long as you aren't erasing the text, recording content-related notes in a text's margins is a very traditional Jewish practice. Consider this page from a very old Tanakh:
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For the grammarians among us, I picked this page for a reason: who can spot Ben-Asher's 'typo'? – Double AA♦ Oct 11 '13 at 3:21
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@magick ha that's a good answer, probably better than what I was thinking of. Cool that two seemingly distinct weird phenomena are so close within a couple lines of each other – Double AA♦ Jun 15 '20 at 1:28
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