A new social networking site allows you to share snippets from longer pieces (so long as the source is electronic). With the help of a bookmarklet installed in your browser, text-sharing can be completed at the click of a button.
“By adding a Twitter-like interface layer to Highlights, Findings gives e-books an innovative edge on their paperbound ancestors: Here’s a social network that literally lets you actively read over other bookworms’ shoulders and watch their thought processes coalesce in real time.”
(Via The Millions)
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The problem with this idea is that most readers highlight utter banalities. You’re reading along in your eBook (or Kindle, as is my case) and some dumb maxim that the author probably should have thought twice about gets highlighted. I am dying for a way to turn the Kindle highlights off, also because I tend to read trash that I don’t need to own in hardcopy on my Kindle, so I’m treated to the highlights *for the type of people who highlight their john sanford novels.* Just going to go ahead and be a snob here. Shoot me.
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