For example, a blog is a feed of text, Flickr is a feed of photos, so we need a standard feed type and then format extensions to support all the different data types (blog posts, pictures, events, podcasts, music, short-form text, bookmarks, status messages, etc).
There, as in Cairo and other Islamic capitals, vendors tout calligraphic renderings of devotional texts, bookmarks with the 99 names for Allah and strings of coloured prayer beads.
The Kindle has the usual list of e-book perks: dictionary, text search, bookmarks, clippings, MP3 music playback and six type sizes (baby boomers, arise).
Notes are anchored to highlighted text and bookmarks save a cached copy of the site.
You can read any Kindle-compatible book you've purchased from Amazon's catalog, read the first chapter of other books for free, adjust text size, bookmark pages, and view notations made on the Kindle.
At the moment, for example, there's no way to e-mail a Web page to someone, no full-screen mode, no way to magnify the page (rather than just the text), and no bookmarks organizing screen.
You can get them in minutes without going to a bookstore, customize the way they look, search through text, insert electronic bookmarks and even look up the meanings of words.
Parts of the text describing the bookmarking features have been previously published as a poster abstract at MIE 2011 in Oslo: Bookmarking Service Considerations for an Archetype-Based EHR Using REST, by ES, MN, ME, DK, and HÖ.
Not only can you full-text search your own bookmarks, but you can also full-text search any other Simpy user's public bookmarks.
– full text search of bookmarked sites – a tag cloud of your bookmarks – remove, rename, split, and merge tags.
There are, however, areas that need improvement: the table of contents in many books are rather haphazardly arranged; there is no way to scroll quickly through a book with the side slider, meaning that you have to go back to the table of contents to jump ahead; and most frustrating, there's no way to mark up a text by highlighting, dropping bookmarks, or composing notes.
