In terms of the Throwaway passage that I have been using as an example, some of the questions regarding annotation would apply in print or in a digital format. But others apply mainly to a digital presentation, or take on different connotations on the screen.
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Clearly, something needs to be said about the conversation between Bloom and Lyons, which at first glance seems either inconsequential or bewildering. But, since the digital format permits a layered series of screens, it is possible, even desirable, to resist mentioning in the first instance the reason why Bloom's remark about the newspaper – "I was just going to throw it away" – becomes so significant. An initial note to those words might be a simple "watch-this-space" symbol, or the note might be limited to the mention in the text of the horse race and say something similar to Jeri Johnson's* note (one of the four existing sets of annotations), which simply indicates that there was a horse race in England on that day. A link from that initial note can take readers to more information.
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