Reading is fundamental

Sometimes I am just overwhelmed by the amount of literature out there. I think the literature review process of a PhD is one the most gruesome parts of the whole experience. Recently I've been trying to read the many P2P architectures that exist such as Chord, Pastry, Tapestry, Kademlia, Symphony, VireRoy and much more. Each of these P2P systems have a ton of applications (and papers) developed on top of them such as PAST, SCRIBE, CFS, OceanStore, OpenDHT, and much more. There is so much out there, but there is room for much more, P2P is the only true way of resource sharing, client-server models do not scale. Hence, the more I read about P2P architectures and applications, the more excited I become about the potential of P2P systems. But I need to keep reading, because reinventing the wheel is not that fun.