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Old 06-21-2012, 12:25 AM   #51
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Originally Posted by Matthew Bostock View Post
I see where you guys are coming from, but don't you think there's some room for the web and social media to come into play?

When you're reading, granted, you don't want any social. At [deleted] we don't do that. It's just text on a page, as you'd envisage. But when you choose to highlight something, sharing springs into life.

For example, if I'm following someone and what they read, when they make highlights in a book, they are giving me an insight into it way deeper than the cover and summary could ever do. Therefore, exploiting the 'social' is good for book discovery.
I never write in books myself, am not interested in watching someone else read a book, and don't care to read the margin notes of others, so no, I have no need to incorporate social media into my reading process.
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