[rodcorp] There are now a few websites that took books from eg Project Gutenberg and re-presented them in a page-a-day format on a weblog or via RSS. Examples: Joyce's Ulysses (from Jason White), Joyce's Finnegans Wake (from Michael Brewster), The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (from Matt Webb), and what's perhaps the grand-daddy of the form, Samuel Pepys's Diary (from Phil Gyford, which now has 13,000+ annotations). There's something interesting about seeing pages placed next to each other in a newsreader. This next to that, here and now: random correspondences, connections, comparisons.
There will obviously be a huge number of these "correspondences" (particularly if you're looking for them), but perhaps there's mileage in going further, in remixing people's books and notebooks, or at least in providing a pick-any-X-books service to make a DIY RSS page-a-day feed.
by Paul | 10 August 2004
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