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Amateur critics and online book seminars
November 29, 2005 | 11:54 am
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By Branko Collin
Reinder Dijkhuis comments on the online seminar about Susanna Clarke’s fantasy novel Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, which is being held over at the Crooked Timber blog. While he does so, he muses about the emancipation of literary criticism; and how that is ultimately a good thing. And he promises to blog more about that in the future. Which is entirely a good thing.
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Here’s what we need: a way to capture people’s notes about literary works in some permanent/archival fashion. Cliff notes wiki style? I’ve seen some wiki-to-docbook conversion scripts that would do the trick.
That’s why I found Osoft’s notetaking features to be so interesting. One of the most amazing things I encountered in the tech writing world was the online documentation for mysql which incorporates notes from readers (which you can hide or reveal). Nowadays this kind of thing is relatively common. I’m a tech writer and recognize that users can often provide better insight into technical concepts than the technical writer.
I forgot to make my final point. If we could capture reader notes, it would no longer be necessary for students to pay for overpriced Norton anthologies. Do you realize that the Norton Anthology of American Literature (consisting of lots of public domain works) sells for $65 per volume for a 2 volume set. The excellent anthology notes add the extra value, but couldn’t filtered moderated reader notes provide the same kinds of insights?
nagle said:
> Here’s what we need: a way to capture
> people’s notes about literary works
> in some permanent/archival fashion.
the only difficult part of such a puzzle is
paying the bill for the permanent archive.
otherwise, it’s as simple to do as a wiki…
nothing about a global library is difficult
except carving out some storage space
and paying to pump out the bandwidth…
-bowerbird
“I’m a tech writer and recognize that users can often provide better insight into technical concepts than the technical writer.”
I am not sure I agree. I think users often provide different insights. As a user, I tend to find those insights very handy, because they tend to resonate with what I wanted to know.
I some thoughts on a similar post, i’ll start a new thread. Nice Site