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Hybridization between paper and digital, each day is enriched by new forms. The Italian community of book lovers can only rejoice agreement between Anobii and IBS, perhaps that will ensure the survival of the community.r32v9xsw4ga22d16ty0v6dha3uubqvx8LibraryThing every day invents a new ... after the early review (reviews in exchange for books) governed by publishers, individual authors may now also use LT to give books in exchange for reviews and another fun treat is the opportunity to know if in our library are volumes that have been loved by celebrities, from Kafka to Marilyn Monroe: it occupies the group I See Dead People's Books.s0j7rq6atuf11e60ckba9nmxmbxksexb

Thanks to the post by Fred Cavazza, Mes 3 sites 'Coup de Coeur' (bis) I discovered the site for readers wolverines, Bookglutton: no need to catalog your library, but to read together, noting steps and discussing each section.dwthzutigdh8n4storjwive68cmz60p9Available on the site are some classic texts (The Art of War, Alice in Wonderland) and no, it can load other members, up to a maximum of 5, provided that you EPUB format (or other) and not protected (NO DRM). Apart from the fun, not hard to imagine the learning potential that this idea could have.c9f1r41dqe68wxgxbwkqywh5kbt7ur3w

On Knol, the wikipedia Google, Marco Guastavigna Boscaino and Marina are writing about how it changes the reader, who has dubbed the e-lector: we can comment and discuss it with them.9gdnlxyf2xx9b9bjben22n80bmkmncin

Attr BookGlutton occur, I arrived in Spineless Book, a publishing house founded in 2002, which produces and distributes electronic literature, with emphasis on collaborative writing, experimentation with form, and utopian thinking.ndbjq4q53tn8h8zqjpruzu3ybs394wni

And if the future of books you have at heart, you can not miss this article: Google & the future of books. Published in The New York Rewiew of Books, written by Robert Darton, prof. Harvard, an expert in history books and librarian.fo7jrp5w7dc4404496u0f4d6xr7pzid5The article is very long and is difficult to summarize: the theory of the Republic of Letters, widespread in the 18th century, which posited a world without boundaries and inequalities, where the knowledge could flow freely, we pass to the analysis of letters as a means of spreading knowledge and description of the aforementioned Republic, in fact a closed world and inaccessible to most people, passing the role of libraries as centers of power are seen2ufjdhv4vql5gtgskf2g9gdxpas1tw8mfinally comes to lights and shadows of the Google initiative to digitize books.
Worth a read, and perhaps a translation ...5jgqoqygi51spn4zstyhpakvcop9eeg9