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Stephen Downes

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There has been some chatter on the interwebs about the idea of using OPML to share book libraries. The good part of this is that a decentralized listing library may be the only way to develop alternatives to Amazon. But I caution that the library has to enable people to access and read the books seamlessly. Otherwise, what's the point? This post points to a GitHub repository that brings together recent discussion on the idea. It begins (where else) with Dave Winer's Little Outliner, which looks beautiful but is awkward to use (IMO).

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