| I have been thinking about this space for quite some time now and maybe if I fast forwarded that process and reached a final conclusion, Glose would pretty much be it. Back when hard copies were pretty much the only copies available for a book, it was pretty easy for me to a) read a book
b) make notes in the side lines
c) markup text that I liked and
d) easily skim through the book later thanks to the notes.
I lost b,c & d when I moved to reading on my Nexus only about 2 years ago. I find that I have lower retention rate, find it difficult to find out what all I've read in quick glance and basically try and connect my readings. Previously, I'd just take a look at the stack of books on my table.I tried finding some reader apps that would allow me to bring back my older pattern of reading. Sadly, no app did it properly. I tried Mantano which allowed me to make notes but it would forget them if I moved the file in storage. Also, the notes were available only inside the Mantano android app. Right now, an acceptable world for me would be wherein I can take notes (including highlighting quotes) and once I am done with the book I have a page /leostatic/zero-to-one where all of my notes with the associated page number is presented. Allow me to click on a note and jump to the page, put in social features and I'm satisfied. For now at least. One interesting feature while keeping in mind the above para would be something along the lines of: I visit julien_c/zero-to-one and I get an option to read the book with your notes visible. So now it is almost like reading your hard copy with notes scribbled in. EDIT: One major issue that I find in glose from my perspective is the overdose of social. Don't get me wrong, I _want_ social but I don't want it _all_ the time. I know I can click on the icon in top right in the web app and select "Only me" but that isn't what I am talking about. Each time I want to highlight something, it throws the annotate field. I don't have data to back this up but intuition tells me number of highlights only will be much greater than highlight + annotate. Let me just highlight and continue reading. |
We're definitely intending to have pages where you can filter your highlights and annotations on one specific book.