I was glancing through some medieval manuscripts and was reminded of the astonishing worth of the marginalia (the images, scribbles and so on made in books). It's a large part of why I almost always want to buy well-scribbled-upon old copies of textbooks.Is there some way for everyone to share their personal marginalia, text annotations, scribbles and highlights for all of their books online? I don't mean some paywalled system like that of Amazon which would try to control which version of a book you get to have. I mean something more like Wikipedia, a website which doesn't actually host the books, but which hosts the shared marginalia of all the users.Obviously people would have different versions of the same book. Perhaps person A has some version of a book from Anna's Archive. Perhaps person B has a version in paperback from 50 years ago. Perhaps person C has a version on their Kindle. Does a website exist for A, B and C to upload their respective marginalia, and for the website to make available those notes to you, and in a format which can adapt to whatever version of the same book that you yourself have? via /r/ebooks https://ift.tt/mBQNruL
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