Do you share books, articles, and courses, as well as notes and notes on them, with others?

Question

Books

Good afternoon.
I am working on creating a tool that can save learning materials (courses, videos, articles, books, etc.) to a personal public knowledge base where others can see it and subscribe to updates from the author or on a specific topic.
This idea is based on the following observations:
- Many people share learning materials with their friends and colleagues with similar interests in person;
- Few people organize their personal knowledge base;
- Few publish their knowledge base publicly;
- People are interested in knowing what their friends and colleagues are studying.
The product is aimed at people who are engaged in lifelong learning and is a community of people with common interests who help each other to study the discipline of interest to them together, through the publication of their educational materials, abstracts, notes and research.
What does this tool offer?
- Search (social discovery) of the best educational materials for any discipline from programming to zoology;
- An easy way to save and organize the knowledge base;
- Providing access to your knowledge base for other people.
My reasoning is subjective and I want to ask you:
1. Do you have the listed needs? Would this product be of interest to you?
2.How do you now share (if at all) books, articles, courses, and other learning materials with your friends and colleagues?
3. What are the weaknesses of such a product and what should be there? What errors do you see in my reasoning?
I am interested in any of your thoughts on this topic in order to better understand and solve existing problems in this area.
Thank you.

Answer 1

1. Yes.
2. On Q&A resources, in person.
3. From the point of view of a potential user, I personally would be more interested in a slightly different approach: select a topic, get a list of books, courses, etc., for which ratings and comments (positive or negative) are determined by users. If he did not find what he used, he added it himself, describing his own experience in studying this material (positive or negative). For adding good material or commentary (according to users), there is a virtual reward system and personal rating (as a catalyst for activity).
Regarding the idea of ​​a subscription, it seems to me that this is not very successful, because. most people just don't know who to subscribe to. And if they do know (celebrity?), then they probably already read his blog, where all this information is most likely to be found.

Answer 2

1. Yes
2. I store all the necessary articles / books / lectures / manuals in Google Drive. Accordingly, I give people a link and access to read.
3. Probably the most important thing is an adequate search. Under an hour you can’t even imagine where and what to look for, especially at the beginning of studying the topic. Some kind of category system will follow the search in order to organize the content.

Answer 3

1. This product would be interesting and useful. I myself use LiveLib, but its capabilities are weak and do not satisfy my needs.
2. Again, I created an account on LiveLib and with the help of reposts
3. I did not look for errors, but I would like to see such a program for Android.

Answer 4

1. Oh, I would be very interested. In my life now just lacks such a service.
2. I don’t share, I’m the only warrior in the field) But I would really like to see what others have there.
3. "from programming to zoology" - it seems to me that this is too much. It would be interesting to see only the technical direction. But this, of course, is my personal opinion.

Answer 5

1. It will be relevant if the recommendations are from real users, and not from marketers. However, if such a database is personal, then it will not be social discovery, it will simply be the choice of one particular person.
2. Through my blog: pletenev.com/mysli/blog and the courses I teach.
3. There will be copyright issues with courses distributed this way.