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Welcome to The Golden Notebook Project. Start reading the book online → Here are answers to some common questions: What is this? It's an experiment in close-reading in which seven women are reading the book and conducting a conversation in the margins. The project went live on Monday 10 November 2008. Why are you doing it? It's part of a long-term effort to encourage and enable a culture of collaborative learning. What do you hope to learn? We don't yet understand how to model a complex conversation in the web's two-dimensional environment and we're hoping this experiment will help us learn some of what we need to do to make this sort of collaboration as successful as possible.

I have seen the future, and it works. Sort of. This particular version of things to come is the future of the book. And the future of reading, too, as we move from consuming books on paper to contributing to them on screens. Maybe. Perhaps. As I suggest below, it might even be a future for 'watching' films. Whatever. In any case, The Golden Notebook Project, which went live at the start of this week, is an entirely engrossing cultural experiment.