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180HYPERTEXT 3.0 goal. In contrast, the second approach attempts with varying degrees of successto translate works created for print into hypertext, thereby exploring thepossible modes of scholarly publication in a digital world. By far the mostcommon approach thus far is the Web version that preserves some formattingfrom the original print version but ignores many characteristic advantagesof the new medium. The many PDF versions of scholarly and scientificarticles downloadable from the Web exemplify this approach, as does ProjectGutenberg, which tries to provide as many digitized versions of printedtexts as is possible. Project Gutenberg embraces both primary and secondarytexts, but its mission doesn t allow distinguishing between them. More scholarlytextbases, like the Women Writers Project, necessarily have as theirchief goal the preservation of as much information as is practicable about thephysical form of often rare and usually inaccessible printed books; textencoding, rather than hypertextualization, understandably has the highestpriority. Other projects, like Mitsuharu Matsuoka's Victoian Literary StudiesArchive at Nagoya University take texts by 150 British and American authorsof the nineteenth century-it includes, for example, two dozen books byDickens and another half dozen about him-and join them to MasahiroKomatsu's Hyper-Concordance; although the Archive does not create hypertexttranslations of these works, it takes advantage of their digitization tocreate on-demand corpus-wide searches.As valuable as these print preservation projects are, they do not help usanswer the question, What will happen, and what has already happened, tothe scholarly or critical book on the Webl Phil Gyford's translation of SamuelPepys's Diary into a Weblog, at which we looked in chapter 3, exemplifies anew scholarly genre that took form outside the academy. Sites like Slashdotand many smaller ones on technical subjects, such as software for Weblogs ordigital photography, are understandable, given the nature ofearly adopters:Slashdot's motto is "News for Nerds. Stuffthat Matters." One does not expectscholarship in the humanities, with its long-established hostility to collaborativepublication, to come online in such a radically collaborative form, and, yes,it turns out it that did not take place with any support from academic institutions,most of the members of which, I'm sure, do not know it exists. In contrast,new media studies (not surprisingly) has embraced the blog as a scholarlygenre, attaching them to interviews and book reviews published online.These Weblogs produce a kind of scholarship and criticism, perfectly valid,which centers on short forms-the essay and review What about the scholarlybook or monographl In an attempt to answer this question, which has