<divclass="cardback"><DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT><divclass="mw-parser-output"><divclass="thumb tright"><divclass="thumbinner"style="width:152px;"><aclass="image"href="https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mw-mediadesign/images/thumb/6/65/Tracing_paper_annotations.jpeg/720px-Tracing_paper_annotations.jpeg"><imgalt=""class="thumbimage"decoding="async"src="https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mw-mediadesign/images/thumb/6/65/Tracing_paper_annotations.jpeg/320px-Tracing_paper_annotations.jpeg"></a><divclass="thumbcaption"><divclass="magnify"><aclass="internal"href="File:Tracing_paper_annotations.jpeg.html"title="Enlarge"></a></div>Tracing paper bearing carbon-copied annotations from Marginal Conversations</div></div></div>
<liclass="toclevel-1"><ahref="#15.06.19_interfaces_for_annotation"><spanclass="tocnumber">1</span><spanclass="toctext">15.06.19 interfaces for annotation</span></a>
<liclass="toclevel-1"><ahref="#bootleg_book:_The_Carrier_Bag_Theory_of_Fiction"><spanclass="tocnumber">2</span><spanclass="toctext">bootleg book: <i>The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction</i></span></a></li>
<h2><spanclass="mw-headline"id="15.06.19_interfaces_for_annotation">15.06.19 interfaces for annotation</span><spanclass="mw-editsection"><spanclass="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><ahref="/mw-mediadesign/index.php?title=User:Simon/Retention_and_transformation_of_annotations&action=edit&section=T-1"title="Edit section: ">edit</a><spanclass="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
<p>The formal qualities of annotations are defined by the tools used to make them, and also the cultural uses of these. Given a pen, most people will write, although it is also possible to draw or use it in other ways. With a keyboard it seems most appropriate to type. With a mouse, one can click on things, and select them.
</p><p>What happens when these are retained, transformed and isolated from the source?
<p>Retained digital annotations are rare in the wild, but I found one PDF of Jorge Luis Borges "The Garden of Forking Paths" that had underlinings and highlighted text. The interesting thing is that these change appearance slightly depending on the e-reader software used to display the text.
</p><p>The first two spreads of the Borges PDF:<br>
<p>Another text that came pre-annotated was Ursula K Le Guin's "The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction". For this, I placed scans in a vector graphics program and digitised pen marks. I also included the text that was annotated with circles, underlines and lines in the margins.
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<h2><spanclass="mw-headline"id="bootleg_book:_The_Carrier_Bag_Theory_of_Fiction">bootleg book: <i>The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction</i></span><spanclass="mw-editsection"><spanclass="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><ahref="/mw-mediadesign/index.php?title=User:Simon/The_Carrier_Bag_Theory_of_Fiction&action=edit&section=T-1"title="Edit section: ">edit</a><spanclass="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
Text stock: Clairefontaine Trophee (ivory) 120gsm<br>
Binding: Staple bound<br>
Pages: 16pp
</p><p>Ursula K. Le Guin's short essay appears in a compilation called <i>Dancing at the Edge of the World</i>, which I've found impossible to find online through the usual pirate libraries such as Library Genesis, aaaaaarg.fail and Monoskop. Perhaps this points to a gender bias in what is perceived as knowledge (Le Guin was a woman wrote mostly science-fiction)? In lieu of not being able to find the compilation, I decided to print this book in a very small size (90x120mm) and retain the annotations from the PDF I found. I digitised them by making them into vectors, and printed the text and annotations in green. In this way I wanted to speculate on what would happen when a reader was confronted with annotations that seemed to be part of the source, not a para-text added after publication.
