Following Kindlers
“While Kindle users have been able to post quotes from the ebooks they are reading to Twitter or Facebook for some time now, only recently has this feature been expanded to allow users to utilize their Kindle profiles in some potentially interesting ways. Before I get into what those ways might be, let me clarify that a Kindle profile and an Amazon profile are not one and the same […]. In a nutshell, Kindle profiles are focused on reading and Amazon profiles are focused on buying. […]
To get to your own kindle.amazon.com page, you must login (again) with your Amazon account information. Logging in again brings the now familiar Highly Followed Users and Books With the Most Public Notes, but it also lists your recent activity (passages that you have highlighted, annotated, or shared on Twitter or Facebook).” - Chronicle of Higher Education
Interesting. I see how this could be tremendously useful for teachers to guide their students through a reading, or for study groups and book clubs to share thoughts, questions, and references. It’s a nice step towards fostering a communality of reading, and it resembles the sharing features presently being incorporated into several e-based textbooks, perhaps a harbinger of more overlap between the industries.
