desecration in a good cause?
My basic librarian-ness is always a bit shocked by finding writing in books. But this is a bit different:
At first I suspected a personally prudish but meticulous scribbler. But there’s a more obvious explanation, of course. This book was used to record a Talking Book, a structured audio book that blind and partially sighted readers use.
Talking Books are recorded in DAISY format, a XML based markup language.
“A DAISY book is a digital audio book, designed to allow you to move around the text as efficiently and flexibly as a print user. You can:
- make bookmarks
- pause books
- speed up or slow down
- read or ignore footnotes
- jump easily from chapter to chapter, heading to heading and page to page.”
Daisy 3 Structure Guidelines, for those that like this sort of thing.