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The thing I wish the most with epub or technically the epub readers is the ability to scribble and hand write notes in them using a stylus and for them to keep
by reacharavindh 3y ago
The thing I wish the most with epub or technically the epub readers is the ability to scribble and hand write notes in them using a stylus and for them to keep them while reading again. I do that with PDFs on my iPad, but have a lot of tech books for which I took manual notes nowhere to be found again - even if I did, they are not inline with what I was reading and thinking.
- eviks 3y agoIn general, the modern docs should be easily editable, not just allow annotations, since it's easy to preserve the original content/layout
- beckerdo 3y agoI agree, I would like an ePub to have a robust note taking and exporting ability. For instance, if I highlight in Chapter 8 "In 539" [next paragraph] "Belisarius" [next paragraph] "marched on Ravenna" [10 paragraphs later] "In 540 Belisarius entered Ravenna". I would like to export this with the Chapter header and detailed highlight locations OR just as one sentence with subtle links to the locations.
- AlanYx 3y agoI'm on the same page. I convert all my ePubs to PDF because I want to keep my handwritten annotations in-place alongside the text I'm annotating, including things like circled words. Recent Kobos (Elipsa and Sage) take a decent stab at solving this problem while retaining the ePub format and reformattability, but it breaks too easily.
- sriacha 3y agoSame, its a big wish of mine, just to have simple portable highlights in epub. There's some interesting news in this space: next version of Zotero will have epub annotation (WADM) support: https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/110487/embedding-annotations-in-epub-file-itself https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/110487/embedding-annota....