@Meaningness @cwage almost no one wants to read a whole book online anyway
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Replying to @drethelin
@drethelin@cwage Kindle book sales are huge, and Kindle books suck totally. They combine the worst of web and paper formats.3 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @Meaningness
@Meaningness@cwage what's wrong with kindle books? I usually have no problem with them.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @drethelin
@drethelin@cwage Typography is usually awful, client UI is inconsistent and stupid, and makes almost no use of fact that it’s on a computer2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @Meaningness
@Meaningness@cwage client UI SHOULD be inconsistent because different devices work differently, no?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @drethelin
@drethelin@cwage Sorry, I mean internally inconsistent. iOS Kindle client won’t let you see footnotes if footnote marker is in area that >1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @Meaningness
@drethelin@cwage > brings up menu when you tap, for example.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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Replying to @drethelin
@drethelin@cwage Not really fair, because it’s not an inherent e-book limitation, it’s just Amazon product manager not caring.11 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @Meaningness
@drethelin@cwage Kindle has been so fantastically profitable that there has been no motivation to make it good, apparently.1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
@drethelin @cwage But there’s actually two different problems: “e-book” as static text is wrong concept, and implementation also sucks.
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Replying to @Meaningness
@Meaningness@drethelin i think the problem is as simple as whether or not we want a format that stands alone1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @cwage
@cwage@Meaningness yeah: People would rather write books that can also be on kindle than legit e-books that can ONLY be on kindle1 reply 0 retweets 1 like - 3 more replies
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