I an amazing show of love and affection, a relative purchased an Amazon Kindle 2 for my birthday and I must admit, it is amazing.
After learning to use the device and reading a few books, one of the features that really jumps out at me is the ability to take notes, bookmark, and highlight passages in books. I immediately started to make highlights of great quotes and passages and I got to thinking about how I could share these quotes and passages online with friends.
This morning I developed a quick Web Service to serve up quotes to anyone who wants them. Whats great about the system is that it can be consumed by anyone's appliction or read directly from the internet. I have not decided on a front end for the system; whether I'm going to create a Web Site, desktop or facebook application, or a Vista sidebar gadget.
Backend Scripts
As I continue to read more content, I'm going to continue to pluck words of wisdom from these books for later reference. Currently the scripts return plain-text format quotes. I may move to XML if I find that people want to use a RSSReader or I want more detail meta-data about the quotes.
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