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This – No Rest For The Dead – 26 authors. So this idea kind of exists. Great. Ain’t read it, I hate crime or scarey stuff in books, life’s hard enough.
Relay reading is a thing too, though not sure if that adds anything to the story. Love the idea that each author passes it on to one of their hero’s to see what they would do with the story. Do these actually exist anywhere though?
Anthony Horowitz fans gather to break a world reading relay record
Antony Horowitz’s new short story,The Double Eagle Has Landed, available to read in full exclusively online on Guardian children’s books, is at the heart of a record-breaking reading attempt
Ahh, John Green is in this list. I have linked to his latest best-seller here. He is the perfect guy to start a relay book, then send it to his brother Hank to twist the story up and send it off on a tangent. Who knows who Hank would hand it to, but this would be a great experiment as well as an interesting read.
Books shelved as multiple-authors: Illuminae by Amie Kaufman, Let it Snow by John Green, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Wi...
Collaborative fiction is its name. I like the idea of passing the story on and seeing where it goes. Usually collabs are partnerships but a collaborative author may focus on a specific protagonist or character in the narrative thread, and then pass the story to another writer for further additions or a change in focus to a different protagonist.
According to this news story, you can earn a lot of money if you can help an AI program to recover text from damaged scrolls.
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/vesuvius-challege-use-ai-to-read-burned-scrolls-2272739
Check this out! Scientists are using AI to restore damaged ancient tablets.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2020-11-26/ty-article/scientists-artificial-intelligence-babylonian-tablets-cuneiform-script-israel/0000017f-db95-db5a-a57f-dbff720e0000
This amazing idea can help recover ancient texts that have been lost for hundreds of years!
Scientists are also using similar computer programs to reconstruct the faces of ancient skulls.
Shopfy do books too
WARNING!!!
This exists of course, its just that it’s called “print on demand”
This?
Another great use for a type of compostable plastic
Biodegradable baby shoes
(5 upvotes)Waterproof ‘plastic’ books
(5 upvotes)Pallet wrap that is biodegradable
(1 upvotes)Reusable bags made from vegetable starch
(3 upvotes)Supermarket bucket shopping to reduce packaging
(2 upvotes)Temprature indicator plastic cups
(-1 upvotes)Greenpeace charity shops
(20 upvotes)There are a few ways you can “waterproof” existing books, somewhat.
They exist. They don’t have to be plastic as such, but more like coated paper like modern bank notes.
This – No Rest For The Dead – 26 authors. So this idea kind of exists. Great. Ain’t read it, I hate crime or scarey stuff in books, life’s hard enough.
Relay reading is a thing too, though not sure if that adds anything to the story. Love the idea that each author passes it on to one of their hero’s to see what they would do with the story. Do these actually exist anywhere though?
Ahh, John Green is in this list. I have linked to his latest best-seller here. He is the perfect guy to start a relay book, then send it to his brother Hank to twist the story up and send it off on a tangent. Who knows who Hank would hand it to, but this would be a great experiment as well as an interesting read.
Goodreads list these books with multiple authors, but I can’t find anything where the story is passed on as a relay effort.
Collaborative fiction is its name. I like the idea of passing the story on and seeing where it goes. Usually collabs are partnerships but a collaborative author may focus on a specific protagonist or character in the narrative thread, and then pass the story to another writer for further additions or a change in focus to a different protagonist.