You might also be interested in seeing how annotators have con-tributed to historical documents in Speculative Annotation hosted by theLibrary of Congress (https://labs.loc.gov/work/experiments/annotation) orliterary texts like Frankenstein (https://www.frankenbook.org).
I didn't know these annotation websites existed until now. I'll have to check them out sometime.
Through socialannotation, you can contribute to conversations about reading and writingto enrich learning in the course, much like when you participate in classdiscussions.
This was how I usually engaged with texts in school. We would read the text, then discuss it with our table mates.
Easing open the cover of J.D. Salinger’s Nine Stories that I annotatedtwo decades ago, I can see in the rounded letters of my adolescenthandwriting are notes about Salinger’s life and the underlined head-ing “3 Themes” followed by the bulleted points “communication, inno-cence of children, perversion of adults.”
Do people usually write stuff directly in their books anymore? I usually just write it on a sticky note or in my Notes app. It just feels like I'm ruining the book by writing in it.