Open, Independent Standard Needed for eBook Annotations
I plucked this tweet out of my tweeter stream the other day and decided to check out BookGlutton.com. The idea here is that you form informal (and asynchronous) reading groups using the site as the hub. See the video for more info.
The two neat things about this site is it offers a real time chat client and a book annotation service so you can make notes and chat with other readers as you go.
It got me thinking that an open source annotation standard is something we need from the IDPF. Something like the microformat v-card.
Make annotations. Move them around from computer-to-computer or service-to-service. Contribute to the public discourse or keep them private.
Not quite as ambitous as the bid ideas in Sara Lloyd’s “A Book Publisher’s Manifesto for the 21st Century.” But hey, the small steps would help too.
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