I was struck yesterday by a publisher's decision to place the chapter titles on each page of a hardcover book in the margins - running vertically. While this permits both margins and a few more lines per page, it almost prevents marginal notes. Running lines along the margins are still fine. Are they trying to impede handy scanning of books (marginal text plays havoc with rapid electronic scanning of text by-the-page.)
What has become less common is a summation of each paragraph or section in the margin (often in a smaller font) as scholia or glosses. Somewhat comparable are the Table of Contents with glosses such as found in Art and Its Objects by Wollheim.
Enabling annotation in e-book readers with a virtual keyboard are one thing: being able to assign a text to students with selectable levels of annotation is another. For some ebook readers, text highlighting may suffice.
Moodle has realized the importance of notes/journaling and replaced its limited journal module with its blog module.
Friday, May 21, 2010
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