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I often wish for interactive, annotated, "hypertextual" versions of books -- technologically it should be trivial to build. M&M is an obvious example; there ar
by lobster_johnson 9y ago
I often wish for interactive, annotated, "hypertextual" versions of books -- technologically it should be trivial to build.
M&M is an obvious example; there are many (Tolstoy, Dumas, Conrad, Zola, Proust and, in more modern times, Patrick O'Brian) where historical, biographical and technical annotations would be hugely useful and fun. In the case of translations, concurrent access to the original would also be awesome.
One of the earliest web versions of this that impressed me was a "Web 1.0" hypertext version of T. S. Eliot's The Wasteland, which is a poem constructed almost entirely out of allusions, and which makes little sense without the necessary annotations.
Do any of the eBook formats support anything like this? Have anyone done this in a way that's accessible in any meaningful way on a Kindle?
- rodgerd 9y ago> I often wish for interactive, annotated, "hypertextual" versions of books -- technologically it should be trivial to build. Heavily annotated books pre-date the Internet - my edition of M&M footnotes and endnotes the hell out of the book for context.
- lobster_johnson 9y agoOf course. I was referring to digital e-books.