michael_nielsen

I'd pay a *lot* more for books if I could see the highlights, annotations, and marginalia of friends or people I follow. If books really do matter in the world, feels like we'd benefit from a lot more reading technology. Getting books onto the screen was a good *first* step.

Why not Ratuken (which owns Kobo)? Basing it on epub would make it more extensible as well.

IMO the user experience of this is best if extended into the reading client, assuming you can even get sufficient user density (most people read very few books), so Kindle is by far the ideal (and maybe only viable) platform to build this on.

Yes. Do you understand why Kindle team has done so little here?

Not sure. At macro level, though, I think it’s so hard for companies that didn’t begin as social networks to do social well. It requires a zealotry that manifests in patience and multiple trials (a deep faith that I see a lot in crypto true believers right now)