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

5 points by loltyler1 5 years ago | 5 comments

tingletech 5 years ago |

https://web.hypothes.is

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.

skepdimi 5 years ago |

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

loltyler1 5 years ago | |

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 5 years 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