Karl wrote:
...I realized that we could put up the works of William Shakespeare and allow people to add comments and explanations on the margin. That would be so cool !! There is no site out there that I know of that does this. Little by little we could amass a huge volume of knowledge on these works in one place that is currently only available dispersed throughout various printed texts as well as the minds of teachers and professors at large. Shakespeare seems like the place to start, along with maybe a public domain translation of the Bible, or parts of both of those works.
Exactly. Our focus should be on creating book-based resources for the student; think of all the books a student is required to have for any given class (other than encyclopedias or dictionaries). Those are the books we should focus on creating (textbooks and other related works of nonfiction) or annotating (out of copyright versions of many books that are studied in the classroom). We could also summarize books in booklet form (akin to CliffsNotes) for at least books that are still under copyright and maybe for the public domain ones as well.
--mav
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