Recently, Hugh Howey, bestselling author of Wool and the newly released Dust, wrote a blog post titled “Wikify Me” on his website. In it, he expresses an idea of a possible new feature for e-readers and digital books that would allow a reader to mark mistakes they find in a book’s text and what an author could do with the marked passages in order to immediately make improvements on the work. As Howey puts it, “By marrying Microsoft Word’s Track Changes feature and cloud storage, we would get the wikified e-book.” Track Changes within Microsoft’s Word allows for someone to suggest a change, add comments, and the author of the work to accept or reject those changes. It is a common tool used by editors.…