There are tons of active subreddits about specific fiction books, but surprisingly few large subreddits about specific non-fiction books.
I wonder if this is bc you might discuss problems in e.g. Feynman Lectures in /r/physics, but fiction lacks cross-book “home."
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I'm intrigued! I've jokingly tried to create these points around Seeing Like A State here on Twitter (searching for it here yields interesting stuff; ~1-3 tweets a day out there)
To generalize more, I ask: what would the best online Schelling Point for a non-fiction book be?
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I’d find it really fun to get a notification from someone engaging with some commentary I made on Scott’s notion of “Métis” years ago, and see what others say.
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Right—one framing of this is that the subreddit should be, like, *in* the book. Like Talmudic commentary, except shitposting about métis.
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Yes! Though *my* commentary would not be shitposting.😂
I know back in the day Genius ostensibly sought to be this sort of this, but its ambition no longer seems to be there.
Similarly you have Goodreads "top quotes" and Kindle similar.
Old-school blogs had a lot of this.