[OLPC library] Annotations, revisited

Walter Bender walter.bender at gmail.com
Thu Jan 14 08:31:19 EST 2010


On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:34 AM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just chatted this afternoon with Andi Gros, who is quite interested
> in seeing annotations added to our bookreader's repertoire.  I hope we
> can make some progress there, now that we have a growing active
> audience of users, who will want more than author and title to figure
> out what texts to use for what purposes!

We've had support for annotations in our ebook reader for quite some
time. Is there something specific you are looking for?

-walter

>
> Starting with something simple like "a global/local-network list of
> reviews/notes/comments organized by title" without worrying about
> different versions of works or annotations of specific words or
> sentences, could be very usable.
>
> Is anyone actively working on something like this atm?  I also chatted
> briefly with the founder of RatePoint, who have been following OLPC
> for some time and interested in making global reviews by 'product' or
> 'entity' happen with a simple web interface.
>
> SJ
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