- Nov 2023
- May 2023
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www.ala.org www.ala.org
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The Margins of Marginalia by Tom Peters, ALA TechSource on 2011-05-02
Peters talks about his own reading practices and his annotation habits throughout his life. There's some discussion of the oncoming annotation functionality in the digital space in 2011.
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- Feb 2023
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goodereader.com goodereader.com
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Amazon removing titles from Kindle Unlimited due to ebook piracy issues<br /> by Sovan Mandal
Read at Tue 2023-02-28 6:50 AM
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- Jan 2023
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goodereader.com goodereader.com
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Read 2023-01-29T09:22:00-08:00
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goodereader.com goodereader.com
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Amazon is no longer allowing downloading Kindle Unlimited titles via USB<br /> January 14, 2023
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- Dec 2022
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www.goodreads.com www.goodreads.com
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https://www.goodreads.com/notes/57643476-annotation/3524158-markgrabe-grabe
I rarely see notifications from Goodreads about annotations (typically via Kindle) unless they're from the author of the book posting them, ostensibly to generate engagement with their readers. Interesting to see Mark Grabe sharing his annotations on @remikalir and @anterobot's book on annotation though. :)
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- May 2022
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interactions.acm.org interactions.acm.org
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Even if we can capture patterns and overcome sharing, we might come back to consider the commonplace book.
How cool would it be if we could aggregate old commonplace books to create indicators of how often older books were not only read, but which annotations resonated with their readers during subsequent periods of history and overlay them in some visual way? Something like a historical version of Amazon Kindle's indicators that a certain number of readers have highlighted a particular sentence of a book.
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cagrimmett.com cagrimmett.com
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The highlights you made in FreeTime are preserved in My Clippings.txt, but you can’t see them on the Kindle unless you are in FreeTime mode. Progress between FreeTime and regular mode are tracked separately, too. I now pretty much only use my Kindle in FreeTime mode so that my reading statistics are tracked. If you are a data nerd and want to crunch the data on your own, it is stored in a SQLite file on your device under system > freetime > freetime.db.
FreeTime mode on the Amazon Kindle will provide you with reading statistics. You can find the raw data as an SQLite file under system > freetime > freetime.db.
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www.theverge.com www.theverge.com
- Apr 2022
- Sep 2021
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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“We’ve been thoughtful,” Amazon continued, “about adding only features and experiences that preserve and enhance the reading experience.” The question of whose experience doesn’t seem to come up.
They're definitely not catering to my reading, annotating, and writing experience.
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- Jun 2021
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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Last month, Amazon announced what could be a landmark in electronic marginalia: public note sharing for the Kindle
A decade on, I'm sorry to say that it has some useful features, but doesn't have a very usable UI or any worthwhile discovery. Lack of broad use and support prevents it from being as useful as it might.
I can't really follow the annotations of anyone I might like to and finding any at all can be a bear.
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- Oct 2020
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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To have, but maybe not to read. Like Stephen Hawking’s “A Brief History of Time,” “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” seems to have been an “event” book that many buyers didn’t stick with; an analysis of Kindle highlights suggested that the typical reader got through only around 26 of its 700 pages. Still, Piketty was undaunted.
Interesting use of digital highlights--determining how "read" a particular book is.
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- Apr 2020
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www.propublica.org www.propublica.org
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There are “literally zero hoops,” one user in 4chan’s /pol/ forum told another in 2015. “Just sign up for Kindle Direct Publishing and publish away. It’s shocking how simple it is, actually.” Even Breivik, at the start of the 1,500-page manifesto that accompanied his terrorist attacks, suggested that his followers use KDP’s paperback service, among others, to publicize his message.
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- Jul 2019
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ir.aboutamazon.com ir.aboutamazon.com
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Amazon introduced the all-new Kindle Oasis
This Mashable review says it all:
Amazon barely tried [...] With the exception of a new warm light feature, Amazon's 2019 Kindle Oasis is virtually unchanged, which is extremely disappointing.
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- Jun 2015
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possible with modern technology,
This is terrifying but also fascinating. Imagine the data for MFA programs on the content/style whatever on the last page readers thumbed before stopping the turning!
Also, couldn't this system be easily gamed: creating bots to "peruse" texts at the right pace repeatedly?
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