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The BOOK: Son of Man -team is looking for your ideas and comments. Join and show your support for BOOK: Son of Man. E-WaltariHow about an electronic book in which the text is the only thing that is fixed. Fans could add their notes, images, audio, video, and even messageboards and websites, to the parts of the book they want to. Kinda like Google Earth, but in a book format. It could ultimately become "a internet hub of a book". Think, for example, about an e-version of Mika Waltari's Sinuhe the Egyptian, in which fans have attached to the pages their travel photos of the book's locations, or translation of the text in hieroglyphs. Or it would allow a class to read the book and put in their assigments, links and pictures in real time. Why not? |
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Jani might have a point there: if they're going to bother reading a work of literature they've probably got a higher level of maturity than your average YouTube commenter, so we could expect a higher quality of comment.
I'd really like to see how this would work. I know there are a legion of douchebags on the internets, but i doubt there are quite that many in the book-reading crowd.
There should be some kind of admins, that's for sure. Maybe you could appoint the active users/commenters as admins, in the classic forum style.
Kris, true, but this would make discussion between the comments near impossible, and I think that's what really would add value...
Mike, you could have a voting system which would allow more interesting comments to rise higher up the list? I know that can be corrupted too, but it's better than nothing.
That would be really nice, Jani and Kris! It would truly make not just the writing but also reading the book a collective experience.
"I really like this character." "I don't get this part." "That's a pretty lame line." "Did this really happen?" "I've had a similar experience..."
One problem would be the thing corrupting into online newspapers' reader's commentary section in style and content. Maybe if it was continually edited, but then that would require a person working on it part-time...
I think this is a very good idea as people tend to write notes in books anyway.
I love to buy books in second-hand shops where the previous owner has added their own thoughts in the margins, and with an electronic connected book it would be possible for ALL readers to do so worldwide.
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