The [[staff lounge]] had some talk about loading public domain books on the site with space to make annotations to them. While I thought little about it now 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 knowlege 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.
-- Karl
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The [[staff lounge]] had some talk about loading public domain books on the site with space to make annotations to them. While I thought little about it now 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 knowlege 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.
We should reevaluate Project Sourceberg in the light of Wikibooks. PS is still languishing on <ps.wikipedia.com> (which should be the Pashto Wikipedia) under Phase I.
-- Toby
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