E se o Twitter pudesse ser usado para organizar um Clube de Leitura com centenas, milhares de leitores a lerem e a comentarem um mesmo livro? Neil Gaiman e a sua obra "American Gods" foi escolhido para este projecto - ONE BOOK, ONE TWITTER - lançado pelo editor Jeff Howe, este mês.
Don't believe what you read, says author and editor Jeff Howe. "The Internet is not destroying literature." If anything, he argues, "the new medium could breathe new life into a few old ones." To prove his point, earlier this month Howe kicked off "One Book, One Twitter," which Howe hopes will become "the largest collective reading exercise in history. "This summer, thousands of people from all over the world are reading Neil Gaiman's 'American Gods.' They will then discuss the book using Twitter, a new-fangled technology that's doing for the epigram what Anne Frank did for diaries."
One Book, One Twitter launched on May 4 (now on Twitter at @1B1T2010 with 7,600+ followers, as of this morning). There is a schedule available, which shows which chapters are now being read and discussed. (As of today it's Chapters 4, 5, and 6.) The #globalrollcall indicates that participating readers hail from locales as diverse as Italy, Brazil, Alaska, the San Francisco Bay area, and Worthington, Ohio
E se as bibliotecas escolares ou públicas se inspirassem neste projecto? Era capaz de ser surpreendente!!
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