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1. ofalkaed ◴[] No.44575773[source]
William Gass - The Tunnel. For the past year or so I have been trying to come up with a good way to help people understand it without explaining it all away. Think I have mostly figured out how to do it, just need to spend a month or two heavily annotating the book and taking notes, and then make a website. So many books these days have terrible online resources that do more damage than good, indices and annotations which seem to index and annotate by whim with no sense of scope or purpose. Quite a few seem like they were personal projects in the creators process of understanding the novel and while I think it is great they shared it all with the world, I wish they had used what it taught them to edit their indices and annotations before they uploaded them.

Been dragging my feet on this since I don't really feel like learning all the web stuff, have not made a webpage in 20 years. Eventually I will get to it, or maybe I will find an accomplice.

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2. chistev ◴[] No.44576984[source]
‎I'd love to be your accomplice for this. ‎

‎I have my own idea too regarding a book website, but different from yours. I've been thinking about it.

‎ ‎I had a personal Facebook account where I posted interesting quotes from books l read. My Facebook wall was just an agglomeration of interesting quotes I found either from books I read, or movies I watched, or things I found online.

‎ ‎It was like my own personal archive, but yet publicly shared for people to see because those quotes were too good not to be seen by others. Facebook memories made it even more exciting as I could see quotes from years ago that sometimes captured how I was feeling that same day I saw the memory.

‎ ‎But then few months ago my Facebook got suspended for "account integrity" issues and my appeals have failed. I've accepted I'd never get my Facebook back. ‎

‎So now I've just been storing quotes on my personal notes app, but it's not satisfying that I can't share them with the world.

‎ ‎My idea was to build a website where I can share those quotes and people can comment on them and share their own quotes too. Just a quote website lol. Quotes from books, movies, etc. Profound stuff.

‎ ‎But then the more I think about it, it's like a social network again and I'm not sure I want the stress of that. Moderation and stuff.