About

Welcome to Project Dog-eared. As avid readers we realised that we go through a multitude of emotions and thoughts at different stages of reading any book. But, once we have finished the book, our impression of it was often based on one predominant emotion or memory of the book rather than our whole reading experience. We wondered if this could be improved upon , and came up with the idea of Project Dog-eared.

Here, we intend to choose a book - any book - some times agreed, but mostly our own individual choices and document our thoughts and emotions as we read along. We then intend to collate it all together at the end, possibly into a review.

In other words, this is just the good old scribble at the corner of the book, but more organised and shared live on the net. We must point out the reading is not collaborative but only a collective assortment - that is - unlike book clubs you don’t discuss the books as you read along. However some of you might want to follow what others are reading and comment on others’ posts and interact. So if you feel this is something that you would be interested in, give us a shout. We will log you on here. Then all you have to do is pick up a book of your choice and start reading and posting.

Wednesday 23 February 2011

Reader Alert: Open Library


I am still navigating Open Library but here is what is exciting:
  • Over a million free e-books
  • Books can be read or read-to (there is a nice audio integration) - Gutenberg + Librivox say
  • Signing up is free; it gives you the ability to add or edit stuff
  • You can create lists (woo hoo! though I wonder why I need another listing service for)
  • A small but growing lending library

Signing up already? That's what I thought...