About a year ago, I read a fascinating article at BBC.com "Are paper books really disappearing?" (https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160124-are-paper-books-really-disappearing), where Robert Stein, founder of the Institute for the Future of the Book and co-founder of Voyager and the Criterion Collection predicts that "the distinction between writer and reader will be blurred by a social reading experience in which authors and consumers can digitally interact with each other to discuss any passage, sentence or line." His latest project, "Social Book "(https://www.livemargin.com/socialbook/client/landing_page.html) "allows members to insert comments directly into digital book texts and is already used by teachers at several high schools and universities to stimulate discussions." Thus began for me a new experiment in exploring the possibilities: An interactive social media platform, a customizable book experience, a digital space where readers interact in real-time with digital copies of their favorite books.
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About a year ago, I read a fascinating article at BBC.com "Are paper books really disappearing?" (https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160124-are-paper-books-really-disappearing), where Robert Stein, founder of the Institute for the Future of the Book and co-founder of Voyager and the Criterion Collection predicts that "the distinction between writer and reader will be blurred by a social reading experience in which authors and consumers can digitally interact with each other to discuss any passage, sentence or line." His latest project, "Social Book "(https://www.livemargin.com/socialbook/client/landing_page.html) "allows members to insert comments directly into digital book texts and is already used by teachers at several high schools and universities to stimulate discussions." Thus began for me a new experiment in exploring the possibilities: An interactive social media platform, a customizable book experience, a digital space where readers interact in real-time with digital copies of their favorite books.