Interesting! I have a somewhat oblique question/suggestion/idea: As somebody who often finds text harder to engage with than audio, I suggest it may also help to spur more awareness and engagement with the work to produce an audio version of it, perhaps in the way that FreeClassicAudiobooks or Librivox do, via a collaboration of readers recording different chapters.
I have not headed such a project, but I've looked into it before - I think the book would only be eligible for a project ON those sites if it were in the public domain (is it?) but we could still do something similar with permission from the authors if it isn't.
I would be interested in volunteering some voice recordings toward such a project. Would anybody else? Is it worth setting up a new related thread to try to coordinate this?
Regarding: "What’s blocking you from working on an altruistic project?"
Recently I took an online course about managing time and projects, including motivation and follow-through, and one of the most valuable take-aways I got out of it was this:
There are three basic reasons people procrastinate:
I have presented this insight into the nature of things that block people from achieving what they want to achieve to lots of friends in my personal life since picking it up from the course, who report finding it helpful in untangling what was preventing them from moving forward.
I am currently inclined to add one more, since I see it reflected in so many of the other comments, and in things I have heard from my more sensitive and idealistic friends.
This seems like a valid question to me, and worth answering, even though I don't strongly share these concerns myself.