Social Reading

Figures and tables

Figures

1.1 The ‘book-fool’ 9

1.2 The Gutenberg parenthesis 55

2.1 Appearance of the library of a reading application 87

5.1 Kno 154

5.2 Goodreads 174

5.3 Library on Goodreads 174

5.4 Review of a work on Goodreads 175

5.5 Statistics on Goodreads 176

5.6 Readmill I 181

5.7 Readmill II 182

5.8 Readmill. Chronology of use I 182

5.9 Readmill. Chronology of use II 183

5.10 Readmill reading synchronisation on various reading devices 184

5.11 Social network of readers on Readmill 184

6.1 Amazon model 208

7.1 Factors which have led to the development of social labelling 221

7.2 The evolution of indexing from the agent point of view 225

7.3 The social indexing triangle 226

7.4 Types of folksonomies 229

7.5 Types of social tagging ...