In the mid-90s, my first copy of the Kritik der reinen Vernunft was the old Raymund Schmidt edition, up until that point still in print and frequently repressed by Meiner Verlag. Pretty quickly, that copy became unreadable, as I used it extensively while writing up my Dutch MA dissertation (which was on McDowell's reading of Kant). In 1998, Jens Timmermann's thoroughly revised edition of the Kritik was published, which I purchased immediately and became my Handexemplar. That copy doesn't exist anymore, except for a sizeable portion of the Analytic, as loose leaves. I don't use these anymore but I recently found the sheaf of sheets again between other old papers. It's full of marginal notes, which barely make sense now. I have since used up another copy of the Kritik (the Meiner anniversary copy of 2004), which has fallen apart completely, but I stopped jotting down as much notes in the margins, and extensive underlining. While reading, it may make sense making such notes and underlining or marking up whole paragraphs, but I've learned that their usefulness has a limited shelf life. Here are the sheets making up the complete B-Deduction (that is, §15-27) from my first copy of the Timmermann edition, just for fun. Images can be enlarged for increased detail.
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