I was reading a book today. This particular book has been borrowed from a friend, so I didn’t want to mark in it. However, the book was good enough to merit buying, and marking, myself. But what if I want to underline and doodle on the pages now, but have the marginalia be digitally searchable and transferrable to other books? Sounds like a web service.
My ideal use case: a web service that may be queried by etext readers to pull down a store of my personal annotations for a given book, which the reader then accurately layers on top of the actual text. Microformat captures underlines, marginalia, etc.
The chief problem: how to create something that will do the layering described above accurately and decomposing gracefully?
June 13th, 2006 | Books, Web | 3 comments
