On breaking up the document into its elements, check out the purple numbers idea indicating the location of a document, at http://www.bootstrap.org/#9B
Recently, I came across this Haskell book recently: http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read Where it is made easy for people to comment at such elemental level. How easy it is to convert the book into this form depends a bit on how the book is now - under belly structurally.. but may not be hard. d On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Nishant Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > I am unlurking after a long period with a slightly unusual request. My Ph.D. > supervisor Ashish Rajadhyaksha, who is probably one of the most recognised > names in Cinema Studies in Asia, has come out with his three volume Magnum > Opus (my words) titled "Cinema in the Time of Celluloid" which is going to > be out on the shelves this Winter. However, this email is not a shameless > plug for his book, though I DO heavily recommend anybody with interest in > Cinema to have a look at it. > > Ashish, unlike most academic authors, has a very keen interest in keeping > his work Open Access and he has retained the rights for free digital > dissemination of the entire book and is hoping to make it Public Access. The > book will soon be available in a .pdf format for anybody to have a free > download and read. In the process of thinking about the digital > dissemination, we have now been having conversations about the form of an > e-book - or in other words, if things published online are not books, then > they should probably not follow the conventions of reading a book, and yet > be able to make a sustained argument and information dissemination using a > different form. Ashish is now suggesting that instead of treating the end > result online as a book, he is more interested in looking at what form can > the material he has (textual, visual, moving images, audio interviews) take > so that it can be most effective online. > > For a scoping exercise, he is right now searching for 'interesting' forms of > documentation online to see if an existing form appeals to him. I am, on his > behalf, placing a request here... What are your favourite sites for digital > documentation? Do you have any ideas on what form academic work or > scholarship can take if it does not have to simulate the printed book? Have > you come across (and hopefully saved) interesting spaces which you think > helped the argument because of the form of the documentation and its design? > We'd be quite grateful if we could get some links to start with and see if > it might help in thinking about the form of online publishing that might be > most conducive to online dissemination and reading. > > Thanks > Nishant > > -- > Nishant Shah > Doctoral Candidate, CSCS, Bangalore. > Director (Research), Centre for Internet and Society,( www.cis-india.org ) > Asia Awards Fellow, 2008-09 > # 0-9740074884 >
