Schilit et al. - 1998 - Beyond paper

referenceArchiveUUID: "36570a20-6826-42bc-9327-0a0567be7eb1"
fullTitle: "Beyond paper: supporting active reading with free form digital ink annotations"
authors: ["Bill N. Schilit","Gene Golovchinsky","Morgan N. Price"]

https://doi.org/10.1145/274644.274680

An early Augmented reading system, XLibris, demonstrating pen-on-tablet ink annotation. A few non-imitative design elements:

  • a compact representation of the page’s location in the book
  • a page thumbnail view as we see in modern PDF viewers
  • a “collapsed” representation of the text showing only the portions of the document around annotations, called “The Reader’s Notebook”
    • very much like a prototype I designed earlier this year! oops!
  • the system attempts to find papers related to annotations and displays links to them in the margin