Awesome Highlighter
by Jason on Apr.17, 2008, under misc. technology
Thanks to the Swiss Army Librarian for posting this tool: The Awesome Highlighter.
It allows you to select and literally highlight text on a web page, and creates a custom URL for your highlighted version that you can share. It adds a “jump to highlights” link at the top of the page to make it easy to spot your emphasized section.
For example, I highlighted a few words on the Library Society of the World FAQ. You can see my highlights at http://awurl.com/lxsevi52186.
How great would this be for IM or e-mail reference, to point out a particular area on a typical over-texted library page (cough)? The only hitch I can see is that it wouldn’t work with most of our licensed databases since they don’t generate stable URLs.
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April 18th, 2008 on 8:18 am
hi jason,
try http://markkit.net
it chaches pages, so it should work with your databases.
then tell me if you liked it.