Marginal: Annotate great books

Marginal gives the reader back the margin. Highlight a line, write beside it by hand, or add a note, and everything stays with the sentence it belongs to. Read our exclusive Marginal Edition versions of The Odyssey and The Great Gatsby with a wealth of context and explanation collected beside the text -- and more on the way.

A MARGIN OF YOUR OWN
• Write by hand beside any passage, with Apple Pencil or a fingertip. Your ink belongs to its sentence, not to a page, so it stays beside those words when you change the type size, turn the phone, or pick up another device.
• Highlight a line and add a note to it, then export your notes and highlighted passages whenever you like, as clean Markdown.
• Your notes and your place follow you across your devices with iCloud.

ANY BOOK YOU BRING
Open any DRM-free EPUB in Marginal and mark it up the same way. It keeps its own cover, its contents page and its links, and if it has footnotes of its own, Marginal moves them into the margin, beside the lines they belong to.

MARGINAL EDITIONS
Every great book takes for granted things its first readers knew: the places, the people, the books everyone had read. A Marginal Edition collects them and sets them beside the page: footnotes, essays, criticism and maps, each next to the line it explains. Tap an underlined phrase and its note lights up in the margin; tap a note and the book takes you to its line. Two come free with Marginal, with more on the way:
• The Odyssey, in Samuel Butler's translation, with Matthew Arnold and Andrew Lang on Homer, Butler's own case that the poem was written by a woman, and a map of Odysseus's wanderings
• The Great Gatsby, with the books behind it (Keats, Conrad, Petronius's feast of Trimalchio, Veblen on the leisure class), H. L. Mencken's review of 1925, and a map of West Egg, East Egg and the valley of ashes

MADE FOR IPHONE DUO, READY FOR EVERY IPHONE AND IPAD
Reading a book and want to dive deeper? Unfold iPhone Duo and the book takes one screen, its margin the other, scrolling together line for line. Write in its margin with a fingertip, or with Apple Pencil when iPhone Duo supports it. Fold it closed and keep reading on the cover, right where you were. On any other iPhone, turn it sideways and the page divides into the book and its margin; upright, every note is a tap away. On iPad, the margin is always open.

Marginal is free, has no ads, and collects nothing about you.