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Originally Posted by DarkTrick
Hello,
(1) I was wondering: why is there no standard to store annotations in an ePub book?
(2) Couldn't you write highlights and annotations directly into the document?
3) How would that work in conjunction with DRMs?
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1. Because it's pointless for almost anyone interested. A separate database or text file is better.
2. Madness. You could create an extra file in the epub (it's just a zip folder) for each existing file to append highlight, position, date, time and comment. But a separate file outside the epub is better. Or that the reader/app database has it and can export it as text (Kobo). Really crazy to edit the existing files inside the epub.
3. Depends on the DRM. But no copyright holder is going to agree to annotations being INSIDE the ebook. There is also no need.
4. Then there is Amazon, who have over 90% of the English Language ebook market partly due to people being conned into giving Amazon exclusivity or allowing titles in Amazon's subscription systems (usually also exclusive unless you are big publisher). Amazon won't care for your scheme and even they who control their ecosystem don't put users annotations INSIDE the ebook.