(Oddly enough, I am more likely to read a Wikipedia article
from beginning to end if I'm looking something up on the Kindle, while I'm
reading a book.)
There's definitely some appetite for [WP-branded and -supported!] reading
and research devices tuned for this sort of work: hyperlinked referencing,
bookmarking, reading, annotating, and compiling into an overview of one's
thoughts while working through an original document [book, article,
encyclopedia article].
I think it would be more interesting to spin off the
existing
> "Wikipedia Library" into its own international organization (or home
> it with an existing one), tasked with giving free knowledge
> contributors (including potentially to other free knowledge projects
> like OSM) access to proprietary resources
Warmly agreed. Related essential services: curating and organizing
proprietary resources, and transmogrifying them into reusable elements [cf.
ContentMine/FactMine].
A few narrow areas of this are covered by commercial services, but most are
not.
Sam.