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Collaborating over portable reading appliances

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Reading appliances or e-books hold substantial promise to help us collaborate. In this paper, we use a study of group activity — a reading group that meets to discuss articles of mutual interest — to explore four scenarios for collaborating with e-books: (1) meetings and face-to-face discussions; (2) serendipitous sharing of annotations, as when we borrow a document from a colleague or buy a used book; (3) community-wide use of anonymous annotations to guide future readers; and (4) e-books as a basis for initiating interaction between people. In so doing, we describe some methods for implementing these facilities, and introduce design guidelines.

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    Catherine C. Marshall, Morgan N. Price, Gene Golovchinsky & Bill N. Schilit

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Marshall, C.C., Price, M.N., Golovchinsky, G. et al. Collaborating over portable reading appliances. Personal Technologies 3, 43–53 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01305319

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