The markup tool in Safari lets you highlight text, add notes, insert your signature, and more. To access it on Mac, take a screenshot of the webpage or convert it into a PDF and use the Markup tool ...

Is a street preacher the right metaphor for every little blog online? UPDATE: Since this story was published, both Genius and Hypothesis have moved to undermine abuse via web annotation using their ...

What’s It Like? Genius is a tool for annotating text online. An outgrowth of Rap Genius (a longtime tool for collecting and annotating rap lyrics online), Genius lets users annotate and analyze texts ...

The iWork suite, including Pages, received a substantial update today as a part of Apple’s iPad education event in Chicago. The biggest feature included in the new update is Apple Pencil support for ...

Reading has always been a solitary pursuit for many, but a new and exciting trend is taking over the bookish world. Book annotation with friends is more than just making notes in the margins—it’s ...

The last time we explored Preview, OS X’s built-in document and image viewer, we discussed using it to crop and resize images, as well as how to undo those changes (see “The Power of Preview: Cropping ...

Would researchers scrawl notes, critiques and comments across online research papers if software made the annotation easy for them? Dan Whaley, founder of the non-profit organization Hypothes.is, ...

Samsung recently introduced its long-awaited e-book reader for the American market, and while it has useful features, a big one is missing. The $299 Samsung eReader E60 will lack 3G cellular ...

For bibliophiles, annotating books is a way of deepening their understanding of the text and enhancing their appreciation of literature. While there are readers who are experts at annotation, there ...