Tag Archives: Annotation

Everyday annotation

Posted by Pat Thomson | May 16, 2022 | 0 responses

Last week I stumbled across the book Annotation, written by Remi Kalir and Antero Garcia. As the title suggests, the book is all about the history and practices of annotating texts. And probably because the book is from the MIT Press, the authors don’t stop at books and papers – they also tackle how digital technologies […] … learn more→

Mark it up

| October 19, 2012 | 0 responses

As an undergraduate, I did not often annotate the texts I was assigned to read for class. Nor was I encouraged to. When I look back through the books I read as a freshman, I find they are utterly devoid of notations. A survey of my texts from sophomore and junior year yields a small […] … learn more→