Bibliotheque 2.0

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Social reading doesn’t create a new category. People excerpt and annotate and share and argue and quote and remix. All these things happen all the time. Social reading introduces the idea of text as a usable object. The idea that I’d read it and then do something about it — those actions were always connected, but we pretended they weren’t because the book didn’t have those features. Social reading goes any place where a group of people cares about a particular text.

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Thanks to technology’s mass appeal and accessibility, on a daily basis we collectively produce 2.5 quintillion bytes of data, and the growth rate is so high that 90% of all information ever created was produced in the last two years alone.

What we can do now has never been possible before: the next IT revolution is happening in the “I” - the information - not the “T”.

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Print will survive. Books will survive even longer. It’s print as a marker of prestige that’s dying.