電子書籍のハイライトとノートテイキングの可能性

電子書籍のハイライトとノートテイキングの可能性で、紙パルプからできた本の終焉か? 紙パルプからできた本の良いところは、自分でハイライトしたところやノートテイキングしたところを簡単にページを目繰り返して読めるという点だろう。この利便性は特にノンフィクションにおいて顕著だ。以前のKindleはハイライトとノートテイキングの使い勝手がよくなかったが、iPadKindleアプリでは大分改善しただけでなく、Kindleアプリ上でハイライトとノートテイキングした部分はすべてAmazonアカウントに反映されるのだ。そしてここからEvernoteへ保存すれば自由にテキストを編集リミックスができるのだ。可能性はこれにとどまらない。一万人の読者が同じ小説をKindleで読んでハイライトとノートテイキングをするとそれをアグリゲートして、オーバラップして見せてくれるとしたらどうだろう? このCliff Notesと仮に呼ぶ機能は、皆が寄って集まって一つの電子書籍をサマライズして見せてくれることにならないだろうか?

But non-fiction wasn’t so great. If you look at most of the non-fiction books in my library, you’ll see they’re totally marked up, underlined, annotated and messy. It’s the way I attempt to cement in those most important points, and it helps me recall the good stuff in a book more easily. On the Kindle, I could highlight, and take a note, but it just wasn’t as useful. The notes were hard to find, and the highlights just weren’t feeling as sticky. I wasn’t impressed; in fact, it was frustrating. Last week, when I downloaded my first book to my shiny new iPad, things improved. [...] Turns out my iPad Kindle app syncs up all of my highlights and notes to my Amazon account. Who knew? When I finally got to the page Ted pointed me to in my own account, the page that listed every highlight and every note that I had taken on my Kindle version of John Seely Brown’s new book Pull, I could only think two words: Game Changer.

http://weblogg-ed.com/2010/the-end-of-books-for-me-at-least/

The Greater Whole
So consider this: 10,000 of us reading the same Kindle book, each of us highlighting and taking notes. Would the aggregate of this not be illuminating? If I want to publicly share my notes with fellow Kindle or iBooks readers, shouldn’t there be a system in place to do this? Show me the overlap of 10,000 readers' highlighted passages in a digital book. This is our ‘Cliff Notes.’ We don’t need Derek Sivers' brilliant summaries[14] anymore (sorry Derek!) ― we’re collectively summarizing for each other as we read and mark our digital copies.

http://craigmod.com/journal/ebooks/