Excerpt repository Not sure if this fits, but for a while I've been wanting there to be a site for written excerpts and their annotations, if any. It would be

Excerpt repository Not sure if this fits, but for a while I've been wanting there to be a site for written excerpts and their annotations, if any. It would be for interesting non-fiction articles, books and for research papers, but not a TL;DR service, rather it'd pull out excerpts that the crowd has marked (including the reader's annotations) as thought-provoking or key to understanding a certain concept. HNers sometimes do something similar when they copy/paste a key line in an article posted here and share it in the comments. I want it as a service. ___ News repository Another thing I was thinking about today is how so many articles on so many different subjects get published per day yet they seem to just disappear into the ether after a few days. For example, where are the interesting articles about _____ from the first half of 2007? Again, I'm not sure if this could be a subscription service, but it'd be nice to be able to access 10 such articles per month and have them sent to my Kindle. By the way, I checked Google News and did a search for a random topic from 10 years ago and it gave me a fair number of results from one major newspaper and one of its affiliates, plus one or other two random sources here and there. I'd bet that if I were sent back 10 years and took note of everything that came out about said subject, I'd come away with a lot more content, and from way more sources.