@andy_matuschak with @eriktorenberg on tools for thinking, and especially the future of books!https://www.spreaker.com/user/10197011/designing-and-developing-new-tools-for-t …
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Ted Nelson published Computer Lib / Dream Machines in 1974. I read it that year. It’s the incredible vision that specifically inspired the web—and it was about *books*. Half a century later, Andy & I are approximately the only people in the world who write hypertext books.pic.twitter.com/oAgnEZvuRO
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Nobody even recognizes what a hypertext book is. http://Meaningness.com says “this is a book” on every page, yet nearly everyone refers to it as a blog. “Blog”—a collection of essays structured only by publication date—is the only recognized form of self-published web site.
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“You should publish this as an eBook". Duuude, what for? You're reading it on a screen now, and the experience is far richer than a bad electronic imitation of a dead tree. And still so much more is possible than the half-baked affordances I worked intohttp://meaningness.com
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eBooks are so crippled that there’s more innovation in dead trees. For example, Anne Pendleton-Jullian &
@jseelybrown’s Design Unbound has a nonlinear structure with this nifty navigational aid in the front:pic.twitter.com/KAfPKLFkaA
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In their Quantum Country textbook,
@michael_nielsen and Andy have innovated in several dimensions, most excitingly by building in Anki-style spaced-repetition reminders as a retention tool.https://quantum.country/qcvc1 reply 1 retweet 17 likesShow this thread -
I am hoping to write a Meta-Systematicity Workbook to follow up The Cofounders. Michael and Andy’s experiment has inspired me to rethink that, with interactive features that (I hope) will deepen your understanding, engagement, and recall of principles.https://meaningness.com/cofounders-in-relationship …
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Here is a page from a beautiful, innovative hypertext book, explaining why it is NOT available as an eBook or pdf. Ironically, the book itself is about print typography! https://practicaltypography.com/why-theres-no-e-book-or-pdf.html …
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Replying to @Meaningness @andy_matuschak and
Hmm I don't always love clicking through to things like "next chapter" when reading longer works--feel like it breaks concentration, reduces ability to skim. Prefer scrolling... Maybe that's why people are requesting e-books, which do have this feature
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Thanks, useful feedback!
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Replying to @Meaningness @andy_matuschak and
Thanks! Ebooks do seem pretty limited, so I'm always excited to see people working on other options.
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Ebooks such as epub3 can, in principle, do anything HTML can. I'd say the main problem with web-books is that tools to archive them locally aren't there. Especially if it's interactive, it's fair difficult to build a generic tool. Better the author packaged it themselves.
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