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A Gutenberg-style revolution for reading.

I love the idea of this but implementation, particularly open implementation seems nearly impossible. Even getting digital commonplaces to align and register is tough enough much less doing multi-modal registration with the locations that books might live.

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This, it seems to me, would be something like a readerly utopia. It could even (if we want to get all grand and optimistic) turn out to be a Gutenberg-style revolution — not for writing, this time, but for reading. 1

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  1. What I Really Want Is Someone Rolling Around in the Text | syndication link↩︎

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June 9, 2021
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