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The Golden Notebook Project is a really interesting new online experiment. Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook has been published, in its entirety, on the site. Over the course of 5-6 weeks (it started yesterday, November 10th) seven women will read the book online and, by commenting in  “the margins”, will discuss the book in detail. Although the “inline” conversations are restricted to these specific seven women, the discussion forum is open to anyone to join in. A really interesting way to start conversations about the book, and perhaps a new way to encourage more readers in general. We are a social bunch, typically, and sometimes the only thing better than a really good book is sharing that book with others.

It will be especially interesting to see how the project evolves, what discussions and ideas are started by the community that gets involved, and what all this may lead to for future online book projects. Definitely a fine project to keep an eye on.