Comments on: Of open libraries and internet bookmobiles http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/08/24/of-open-libraries-and-internet-bookmobiles/ a blog about information Mon, 10 Jun 2013 05:04:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Stephen Smoliar http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/08/24/of-open-libraries-and-internet-bookmobiles/comment-page-1/#comment-178054 Stephen Smoliar Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:53:05 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/08/24/of-open-libraries-and-internet-bookmobiles/#comment-178054 This is an issue I addressed back on my Yahoo! 360! blog:

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Mff23hgidqmHGqbcv.lfskakEtS6qLVHUEMFUG4-?cq=1&p=55

I still believe, as I did when I wrote this, that it is important not to confuse books and reading. (However, much I may disagree with some of the books JP chooses, I value that fact that he writes about what he gets from READING them!) The locality of a brick-and-mortar library often had a lot to do with the emergence of “communities of readers” around the books it housed. In light of my most recent comment about Facebook, I am skeptical about the emergence of such communities in the virtual world:

http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/08/24/facebook-and-the-enterprise-part-7-communities/#comment-178032

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http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:About

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