Ask HN: Does a genius.com-like app to annotate ArXiv papers exist?

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If you download the PDF, you can annotate PDFs locally. Why not do it that way?

It's about the crowd-sourcing aspect of genius.com.

Experts in the various fields could annotate papers in order to make it easier for non-science-savvy people to get what is going on.

skepdimi 6y ago ↗

This is an interesting idea. I think the problem with such an app is that reviewers and publishers have sort of a monopoly on papers, which makes it hard from a business perspective

[dead] loltyler1 6y ago ↗

Isn't it similar with music lyrics and music publishing companies?

I don't think the legal point would be the biggest setback.

strangecasts 6y ago ↗

I believe the "Librarian" Chrome extension - https://fermatslibrary.com/librarian - from Fermat's Library should do that, but I'm not certain if the comments are shared across users.

[dead] loltyler1 6y ago ↗

I tried it, yet it doesn't seem to be used a lot.

For one paper I was interested in, I found a YouTube-video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY5PvZrJhLE&feature=youtu.be)

I wonder if usage could see a spike if it was possible to issue monetary rewards to annotators as a reader.

What do you think?

[dead] loltyler1 6y ago ↗

btw, the comments seem to be shared across users, there just don't seem to be a lot of users.

tingletech 6y ago ↗

https://web.hypothes.is