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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I do remember a scholarly platform at Harvard University that was trying to build something like this for academics. It was quite beautiful, but never really got out of the gate.
What was it’s name.
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Or imagine you’re reading a particularly thorny passage of “Paradise Lost” and suddenly — zwang! — up pops marginalia from a few centuries of poets (Blake, Coleridge, Keats, Emerson, Eliot, Pound), with their actual handwriting superimposed on the text in front of you. 1
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A decade on, I’m sorry to say that the Amazon Kindle has some useful features, but doesn’t have a very usable [[UI]] or any worthwhile discovery. Lack of broad use and support prevents it from being as useful as it might. I can’t really follow the annotations of anyone I might like to and finding any at all can be a bear.
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Last month, Amazon announced what could be a landmark in electronic marginalia: public note sharing for the Kindle 1
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Goofy as this physical version sounds, I could imagine a digital overlay version that could go along with digital books in much the same way that Google Maps has digital overlays. The problem lies with registration and location of words to do the overlay properly. The UI would also be a major bear. Hypothes.is has really done a spectacular job in their version, the only issue is that it requires doing it all in a browser and isn’t easily usable in any e-readers.
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This gave me an epiphany — a grand vision of the future of social reading. I imagined a stack of transparent, margin-size plastic strips containing all of my notes from “Infinite Jest.” These, I thought, could be passed out to my friends, who would paste them into their own copies of the book and then, in turn, give me their marginalia strips, which I would paste into my copy, and we’d all have a big virtual orgy of never-ending literary communion.It was a hopelessly clunky idea: a vision right out of a Library Science seminar circa 1949. 1
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Open Bookmarks used to reside here: http://booktwo.org/openbookmarks/about/ but isn’t active anymore. A newer incarnation is here: http://booktwo.org/notebook/open-bookmarks-the-beginning/ but it too appears to be dead.
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To this end, Bridle has started a site called Open Bookmarks, a discussion forum on which people can hash out the basic rules of capturing electronic metadata. 1
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This author bio had to have been modified after the publication of this article as The Shallows came out in 2010.
I have to suspect that a lot of what appears here was early work and research that heavily influenced his subsequent book.
I remember discussing portions of it with P.M. Forni in preparation of his own book The Thinking Life.
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Nicholas Carr is the author of The Shallows and The Glass Cage: Automation and Us. He has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired. 1
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