Comments on: Cloud Books http://weblogg-ed.com/2009/cloud-books/ Learning with the Read/Write Web Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:36:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: RSS Continued (Thing 7a) | Building a Digital Village http://weblogg-ed.com/2009/cloud-books/comment-page-1/#comment-70406 RSS Continued (Thing 7a) | Building a Digital Village Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:55:41 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/?p=3245#comment-70406 [...] Cloud Computing [...] [...] Cloud Computing [...]

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]]> By: Bill Fitzgerald http://weblogg-ed.com/2009/cloud-books/comment-page-1/#comment-69719 Bill Fitzgerald Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:10:13 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/?p=3245#comment-69719 Hello, Will This sounds a lot like Google wave. Hello, Will

This sounds a lot like Google wave.

]]> By: Steve Hargadon http://weblogg-ed.com/2009/cloud-books/comment-page-1/#comment-69674 Steve Hargadon Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:08:44 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/?p=3245#comment-69674 Don't forget to add the ability to annotate/filter by "group." Much like Diigo already allows... :) Don’t forget to add the ability to annotate/filter by “group.” Much like Diigo already allows… :)

]]> By: Michael Brewster http://weblogg-ed.com/2009/cloud-books/comment-page-1/#comment-69673 Michael Brewster Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:11:29 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/?p=3245#comment-69673 ever since I first heard of Vannevar Bush's Memex, I've wanted to be able to do this. I wrote my senior thesis in college on Finnegans Wake & hypertext, and in the most basic of ways, I showed how links worked online (the text was still in copyright worldwide then)... But we're really not any closer in terms of having that specific body of knowledge trapped in the prison of printed books opened to annotation and sharing. I've been reading about books sought after for their marginalia, imagine a Newton book annotated by Einstein, and I salivate at the possibilities. But the competing commercial interests are balkanizing the process rather than opening it and until someone can hack OCR to read Google Books, texts are now trapped in online image prisons. Even PDFs of public domain books are hit-and-miss, I was looking at downloading an OCR text generated from a public domain PDF and I decided to skip it and retype the parts I needed myself. Enough complaining- you're onto something with the tags, searchable & sortable. I want to see what key thinkers are looking at when they read the same journal articles I do, and I want to see what the erudite but independent scholar thinks about when reading a 300-yr old book. We all have notes scattered on paper and in various files on hard drives, imagibe the amount of analysis, synthesis & enjoyment we'd have if we could share openly... ever since I first heard of Vannevar Bush’s Memex, I’ve wanted to be able to do this. I wrote my senior thesis in college on Finnegans Wake & hypertext, and in the most basic of ways, I showed how links worked online (the text was still in copyright worldwide then)…

But we’re really not any closer in terms of having that specific body of knowledge trapped in the prison of printed books opened to annotation and sharing. I’ve been reading about books sought after for their marginalia, imagine a Newton book annotated by Einstein, and I salivate at the possibilities. But the competing commercial interests are balkanizing the process rather than opening it and until someone can hack OCR to read Google Books, texts are now trapped in online image prisons. Even PDFs of public domain books are hit-and-miss, I was looking at downloading an OCR text generated from a public domain PDF and I decided to skip it and retype the parts I needed myself.

Enough complaining- you’re onto something with the tags, searchable & sortable. I want to see what key thinkers are looking at when they read the same journal articles I do, and I want to see what the erudite but independent scholar thinks about when reading a 300-yr old book. We all have notes scattered on paper and in various files on hard drives, imagibe the amount of analysis, synthesis & enjoyment we’d have if we could share openly…

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