2010-04-26
post/550937188
quote 16:22:25
“ You can’t actually copy the text, to paste it into your own private commonplace book, or email it to a friend, or blog about it. And of course there’s no way to link to it. What’s worse: the book in question is Penguin’s edition of Darwin’s Descent of Man, which is in the public domain. ”
Steven Berlin Johnson, in The Glass Box and the Commonplace Book, on manipulating text in iBooks on the iPad. Copied, natch, from Instapaper, saved as a on-device draft in Tumblr, then posted. Just to see if it could be done. (It can, but it’s not so slick if you’re offline.)
