I wish there were more of these formalizations of online discussions out there. Some of the blog posts and discussions I have seen online make for really great reading. They should be culled and preserved. I used to think about doing a “bathroom book” for GMs with daily inspirational tit bits. 🙂 And I wish the OSR would do more to capture the ephemeral posts of people like Patrick Stuart and Arnold K. I would love to see a chapbook of their musings on weird fantasy (which aren’t meta at all, but rather like literary set pieces).

I think to get this started you would need two things: people to nominate pieces from the site worth enshrining and a short sample or two to put up. This isn’t a project people will easily grasp. (I mean, the IDEA is easy to grasp, but it isn’t going to automatically attract people without a better idea of what the final product would look like on their shelf and why they would enjoy it. That’s my opinion. And consider an audio format. Maybe in podcast form.)

FInally (with apologies for the long-winded post), I am incredibly flattered by Marshall Miller’s suggestion but I barely trust myself to talk about fictional works let alone meta-stuff. 🙂 Still, I would enjoy putting together a list of indie books that are fun to read as reading experiences. And I do enjoy crafting reader questions. I could probably write about how to write a good reader response question (or take the lighthearted approach of “how to write a bad question”).