Meaning in the Margins: On the Literary Value of Annotation

• literal

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  Literal augments your online reading experience; capture annotations, sources, and knowledge.

  

Though not textual annotation, some of my favorite recent examples of the value of annotation have been NYT's Close Read series [0]. In some ways it feels like a museum tour or lecture, but more precise (can really call out specific aspects deserving focus, literally _zooming in_ the browser window) and yet also more broad (can easily change subjects, display new visual aids).

I'm currently working on a textual annotation product, Literal [1]. It's open source and implements the W3C Web Annotation spec [2] natively (Yes, there's a web spec for this kind of thing!). You can see a 1m video of how it works here [3]. It's currently Android-only but if you found this article interesting and / or find yourself wishing you could annotate or save bits of text that you read, I'd love to connect with you!

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/column/close-read

[1] https://literal.io/

[2] https://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-model/

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH1ukQY3Ia8

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