Here is a dumb thought I just had. What if in stead of a giant stack of hard to nav papers... ...what if in stead each discipline would aim to publish a book?

Here is a dumb thought I just had. What if in stead of a giant stack of hard to nav papers... ...what if in stead each discipline would aim to publish a book????! Each chapter would highlight the most important components of which the full version would be.... another book? tier 2 of the books would simply refer to papers to provide even more additional reading. The whole thing would keep it self up to date using version control and the closer to the front page of tier 1 the more extremely critical the review would be. An as-large-as-possible crowd sourced budget should be dedicated to reviewing and rewriting each of the book. Each would be freely available online but every self respecting nerd would want a copy on his bookshelves. A strict less is more policy would keep the books portable. Technicality of the tier 1 books should be limited as much as possible in order to fit in a little encyclopedia of terms and methods. By exposing the most important parts of a field to an audience as large as possible scientists would finally get the recognition they deserve which in turn would stimulate allocation of public funds. A truly absurd idea, there, I said so myself.