A paperback should be ~40-80k words. The introductory conceptual framework sections (the only finished part of the book) sum to 23k words currently (~70pp). The first stance chapter, on eternalism, is 43k words currently (~130pp), and is mostly IOUs.
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So an “abridged edition” or concise overview couldn’t start from the existing text & boil out unnecessary details. I’d have write a book-length thing starting from scratch (in terms of wording, rather than ideas). Several months of full-time work. Is that the best use of time?
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If it reached a much larger audience than http://meaningness.com , then yes! Especially if it motivated readers to go deeper into the details, wherever and as they become available. Most pages of http://meaningness.com get a few thousand readers; some, a few tens of thousands.
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Could a paperback introduction to Meaningness reach tens of thousands of readers?
I have no idea; if anyone with expertise in commercial publishing has opinions, I’d love to hear!Show this thread
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Definitely agree it needs to be in paper form at some point. But I think you can do some simple UI updates to the site to make it easier to navigate. The layout/theme you're using looks like it's from the 00's ;)
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I would recommend a collapsable table of contents in a sidebar that exists on every single page of the site. Even better if it highlights where you are when reading a page. This would give a better sense of cohesiveness, a sense of being part of a larger work.
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Navigation doesn't get easier than "click on each link in the ToC". And I think the "obsolete" look is refreshing ("great countersignaling"): it sells itself on the thoughtful content, not the shiny looks.
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That was exactly my thinking! Unfortunately not everyone had that experience
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I find the current website perfectly nice for reading and navigation, but a website can disappear at any time. I’d settle for an ebook—something I could download and archive for safekeeping. (Archiving a whole website is possible but in practice is brittle and error-prone.)
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also an ebook can be more draft-y than a book (one can have multiple versions) but less than the website version sort of an LTS version of Meaningness
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series.
What comes first? How about an overview?
Covering the conceptual framework and ~10 most common stances.