Originally Posted by ATDrake
I just wish the ePub people would come up with a standardized basic dictionary and annotations format that any developer could write software/firmware to use.
And I think the annotations should be kept in a separate file from the actual book, and that for maximum portability, the annotations files should be separate individual files themselves (.enote corresponding to the .epub name, perhaps?), which can be transferred to any supporting reader, and possibly even shared between people (give a pre-highlighted public domain text with study notes to students along with the Project Gutenberg file, or something).
I'm okay with copied highlights being optionally DRM-ed/encrypted or otherwise "protected" by being pointers to locations in the text of the ePub if the publishers insist, and even non-exportable beyond a certain percentage if they're paranoid about that (like Amazon's "clipping limit" on the Kindle, beyond which your highlights will still show in the book, but no longer auto-copied to MyClippings.txt).
But your personally written notes and bookmarks should always be in readable text, and fully exportable via any compatible program.
Anything beyond that in the way of notes-management would be nice, but really, I want this simple basic officially promoted consensus first, just for interoperability.
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