In the Library of the Future, when you’re reading Robert Graves’ “I, Claudius,” you’ll be able to switch to primary texts like Suetonius’ “Lives of the Caesars” or to contemporary histories. (OK, maybe you’ll do the switching when you’re re-reading Graves.)
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roger, would you care to be more specific?
and if you care to _discuss_ this matter,
with other people, in an interactive manner,
could you provide an appropriate forum?
thank you…
-bowerbird
Well, as to a forum, that’s what these comments are intended for, at least in a shortish fashion.
Alternatively, you may provide your own versions (perhaps more realistic, or more fanciful, as the case may be) of aspects of the future library that might contradict this vision and we can publish them (it) here at Teleread.
This series is intended mostly to get people to think about the potential of electronicity in publishing, as opposed to what is practical and what is next.
— Roger
first, the structure of a blog doesn’t allow the type of freewheeling discussion i’d like to have. got listserve?
second, while discussions are always good, because i love ideas, i also like to shore them up with evidence, in the form of working computer programs. the proof is in the pudding…
keep thinking, though, i like to see it!
-bowerbird
With a bow to “the right tool/medium/technology for the job,” I suggest the Book People list. Any readers of these comments unfamiliar with it wil find it at http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/bplist/
The archives are available to members of the list at http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/bplist/
— Roger
roger said:
> With a bow to “the right
> tool/medium/technology
> for the job,” I suggest
> the Book People list
i’ve been a bookpeople contributor for years.
so we can talk over there anytime you want…
but in thinking about it more, it seems to me
the “right” tool for this job would be a _wiki_,
since we can boil out the non-specific stuff and
clear up the fuzzy and wrong-minded thinking,
so people don’t have to wade through archives…
-bowerbird
I’ve been mulling this over for several days.
A wiki has several advantages I can see.
We would have to come up with a site, though.