"All this suggests a peculiar conclusion: as a medium, books are surprisingly bad at conveying knowledge, and readers mostly don’t realize it."
andymatuschak.org/books/
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Dude’s arguing against “words in lines on pages in chapters” by using...words in lines.
Maybe he should grab, oh, I don’t know, maybe, like, *a book,* and look up the definition of irony.
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I'm very aware of the issue! :)
The ideas described in the final section have mitigated some of the problems for another subject; I look forward to removing this footnote from some future iteration.
