Re:In the Face of Constant Censorship, Bulgakov Kept Writing
by rodgerd on Friday July 28, 2017 @04:28PM
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> I often wish for interactive, annotated, "hypertextual" versions of books -- technologically it should be trivial to build.
Heavily annotated books pre-date the Internet - my edition of M&M footnotes and endnotes the hell out of the book for context.
Re:In the Face of Constant Censorship, Bulgakov Kept Writing
by lobster_johnson on Friday July 28, 2017 @04:45PM
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Of course. I was referring to digital e-books.
M&M is an obvious example; there are many (Tolstoy, Dumas, Conrad, Zola, Proust and, in more modern times, Patrick O'Brian) where historical, biographical and technical annotations would be hugely useful and fun. In the case of translations, concurrent access to the original would also be awesome.
One of the earliest web versions of this that impressed me was a "Web 1.0" hypertext version of T. S. Eliot's The Wasteland, which is a poem constructed almost entirely out of allusions, and which makes little sense without the necessary annotations.
Do any of the eBook formats support anything like this? Have anyone done this in a way that's accessible in any meaningful way on a Kindle?