The German Startup of the year is called PaperC. PaperC lets you read current scientific books for free and online. The service stays free unless you want to print some pages, annotate and copy text passages or add your personal notes. So far this is the only service of that kind and for all you researcher worth a view. As of now the service seems to be in German only (if you need help in translating just let me know…).

The coolest thing about the service is the possibility to annotate any passage or save a passage as quote for later usage. You can even do a full text search over the complete content of the book. Great! It would be great to see such tools incorporated in our research communities and to cooperatively annotate papers, see what others have marked at specific passages and so on… Is anyone of you working on something similar?

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