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Originally Posted by queentess
How is it any different than an online version of a book club? I'd love to be able to share a book with my brother and both of us make comments on it as we're reading. We do that now with paper books and post-it notes, but neither of us read many pbooks anymore.
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I find the whole idea pretty distracting, like delving between the text and an endless series of footnotes that may or may not be relevant. The point of a book IMO is to create an ongoing narrative, one idea building upon the other -- constantly changing narrative stream through comments, etc. is pretty distracting IMO -- I'm not saying it shouldn't be available for people who really want it, but it seems pretty remote from the fundamental concept of reading a book.
It'd be like going to a watch a movie and alternating between reviews and web comments and the movie itself, resulting in a disjointed experience.
I would much rather experience the secondary content (reviews, etc.) either before reading the medium (so I know what to "look" for) or after the fact ("Oh, so that's what he meant.")
Old fogey that I am, I don't see "books as an interactive medium" as an improvement of the medium. My mind just doesn't work that way.