Musing

[dfr1973]

 TempReal looked it up for me, and Amazon defines annotation as "Unique annotations (additional content like study guides, literary critiques, detailed biographies, or historical context)."  The context here is for posting public domain works for sale.  Just formatting for readability no longer cuts it - and I can understand why they had to put their figurative foot down, as there is a *crap-ton* of crap out there ... make that a *crap-tonne* as a metric tonne is larger ... from messed-up scans of old library books to decently-formatted stuff where the OCR misreads are corrected.  I've even found versions where someone added their name like a co-author, even though it was just a cleanly-formatted copy.  No introduction, brief biography, historical context, or even a "What this means to me" blurb.  Wow.  Some days I have to wonder what it must be like to not have as high of personal standards as to be able to do that.  I guess that is just one of those things I'll completely miss out on this lifetime.