oreilly/couchdb-guide — Issue #452: no need for quotes when editing value
Author: ghoti143
Created: 2012-01-02 23:53:29+00:00
State: open

The draft version of the book says:
> If you try to enter world as the new value, you’ll get an error when you click the value’s green check icon.
> CouchDB values must be entered as valid JSON. Instead, enter "world" (with quotes) because this is a valid JSON string.

This does not appear to be correct at v1.1.1. You can now enter a string w/out quotes and it is accepted as a string.