If you've ever felt the urge to "like" or comment while reading a book, the future is now.
Author Joshua Cohen is currently writing a "real-time serial novel," pckwck, complete with live updates, likes, and a comments section.
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The first chapter of the novel, which follows the trials and tribulations of a writer named Sham Al-Warraq, is already available digitally at pckwck.com. Cohen will begin writing again live at 1 p.m. EST, and continue for five hours. Site visitors can already "like" their favorite passages by clicking anywhere on the text, and the comments are live -- as is an ongoing count of readers on the left sidebar.
Cohen is the author of several novels, as well as short fiction and other collected works.