Academic History Writing And Its Disconnects By Tim Hitchcock | Digital Humanities Now
Limitations of note taking on ebooks
....I agree with you about the current crop of book simulators. They are rather stupid, and don’t let me have the kind of dialogic relationship with text that I want. Why shouldn’t my ‘reader’ know what I am working on, and privilege that subject in the text (perhaps emboldening passages it thinks are relevant). Why shouldn’t I be able to create a hierarchy of notation, that reflects how I read and re-use text? Why shouldn’t each note I make be embedded within a map of what I have been reading on that day, or week, or for that project? I want all the things a book can deliver, and I want a shed load more. But, one way or another, the evolution of e-texts throws in to ever sharper relief the limitations of the book as a technology.