- Jan 2024
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web.hypothes.is web.hypothes.is
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https://web.archive.org/web/20240106090941/https://web.hypothes.is/blog/ebook-partnership/
Hypothes.is announced a partnership to bring annotation to epub e-books in 2017, but after 2018 no mention of it on their blog. Mailed them to ask about any progress since. Read someone's msg on Masto that they have trouble keeping epub annotations connected to the book (unlike e.g. my kindle annotations that reside in the book, but also are linked back to the location by my obsidian kindle plugin, maintaining the connection and reference. epub is xhtml so it should be doable.
epub is part of w3c standards (cause xhtml)
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- Oct 2019
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futurepress.github.io futurepress.github.io
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Epictetus wrote nothing; and all that we have under his name was written by an affectionate pupil, Arrian, afterwards the historian of Alexander the Great, who, as he tells us, took down in writing the philosopher’s discourses
As it happens, this annotation works through its proper URL) but, Hypothesis butchered the link. You need to turn the page once to see the highlight though.
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- Nov 2017
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web.hypothes.is web.hypothes.is
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if cross-format identifiers like DOIs are used, annotations made in one format (eg, EPUB) can be seen in the same document published in other formats (eg, HTML, PDF) and in other locations.
Whaa..? This sounds seriously hard. But remarkably clever.
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