Bob Stein is the founder of the Institute for the Future of the Book. On the institute’s website, he has posted a useful essay entitled ‘A Taxonomy of Social Reading: A Proposal’.

Please read at least the introduction and his comments on ‘Category 4’ to get a good understanding of what types of social reading there are.

Bob Stein (© Photo by Tomislav Medak, Wikimedia, licensed under CC Attribution 2.0 Generic license)

As an aside, note that Bob Stein’s essay is itself embedded in a social reading environment that allows for readers’ comments in the right margin. (The comments function is closed by now, though, so you cannot add further comments).

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References

Stein, Bob. ‘A Taxonomy of Social Reading: A Proposal’. The Institute for the Future of the Book. June 10, 2015.

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