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Awesome Highlighter

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.