ANNOTATE • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Annotate

... excellent it would be if some reader who is sufficiently rich in experience and the knowledge of life to be acquainted with the sort of characters which I have described herein would annotate in detail the book, without missing a single page, and undertake to read it precisely as though, laying pen and paper before him, he were first to peruse a few pages of the work, and then to recall his own life, and the lives of folk with whom he has come in contact, and everything which he has ...

— Dead Souls • Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol