A little while ago, Pierre sent me an image of a project he thought about for quite sometimes. The idea complements the republishing process of R-Echos and is based on sharing quotes from the books we read.
http://dogeared-books.electronest.com/
the rule is quite simple:
for each quote we like, we make a corner in the book; after a few pages, at the end of the capter, when we finish the book, or stop reading it – we scan the pages and retype the quote (ideally we would use OCR)
After a while we will end up with a very nice collections of cornered pages, and also a database of our favourites bits and pieces from the books we read and which have no search functionality – it is a kind of personal Google Books as well.
* You will notice there are Amazon ads – for a reason: ideally, i would like this experiment to be self sustainable, and the sharing of books could pay for buying the next ones. So if you enjoy the project and find a few books you would like to buy – please use our links, we asked Amazon to pay us in books :)