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Wonder, blunder, salve, solve! Working on tools that expand what people can think and do. Past: led R&D @KhanAcademy; helped build iOS @Apple.

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    Andy Matuschak‏Verified account @andy_matuschak 23 Nov 2019
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    All major ebook formats and viewers are unpleasant and unimaginative, but one little joy: Google Play's ebooks are (usually) viewable in both the typical shapeless "flowing" mode and *also* original page layouts. Better: they have page mappings, so you can switch back and forth!pic.twitter.com/00mfcGWL1W

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      2. Andy Matuschak‏Verified account @andy_matuschak 23 Nov 2019
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        It's nice to use the typical ebook "flowing" mode when on small devices or when doing book-wide search operations; it's nice to use the original page layout in almost all other cases. Buuuuuut: Google Play's books are only viewable on desktop in a web viewer. No dice.

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      3. Andy Matuschak‏Verified account @andy_matuschak 23 Nov 2019
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        With effort, you can download the book as a parallel EPUB and PDF (representing the two formats), then but you lose the ability to switch back and forth. EPUB 3 includes "multiple renditions," which would let you combine both in one file… but no viewer supports this 2015 spec.

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      4. Andy Matuschak‏Verified account @andy_matuschak 23 Nov 2019
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        (For that matter, there seems to be no serious desktop EPUB viewer of any kind. Set aside @patrickc-style dreams of doing anything interesting: none even lets you store annotations in some accessible format, view more than one (non-neighbor) page at once, or link to a page)

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      5. Andy Matuschak‏Verified account @andy_matuschak 23 Nov 2019
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        (Speaking of page numbers, most of them will renumber all the pages if you resize the window, even if the EPUB includes a canonical page mapping! The software situation is so poor that I convert ebooks to PDF—not to improve the layout, but to get *slightly* better reading tools!)

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      2. Scott Farrar‏ @farrarscott 23 Nov 2019
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        Replying to @andy_matuschak

        I wonder, what would free flow look like if it still preserved something of (an intentional) page layout? What is the translation of layout to other media?

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      3. Andy Matuschak‏Verified account @andy_matuschak 24 Nov 2019
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        Replying to @farrarscott

        Yeah, I mean, to some extent that's e.g. https://numinous.productions/ttft  and sites like this. Try resizing the browser all the way from desktop-monitor down to mobile. Even the figures adapt…

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      1. David Cairns‏ @davidcairns 25 Nov 2019
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        After reading your essay I’ve realized how much I use my spatial-brain to find things I’ve read in a book — “Ah there’s a bit I wanted to show you… it’s ~50pp ago, in the lower-right corner…” Can’t believe how resilient this knowledge is!

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      1. Matt Curtis‏ @mattxcurtis 23 Nov 2019
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        Matt Curtis Retweeted Matt Curtis

        Agree with everything you’ve said here. Working on addressing some of these issues in the future with an ebook reader app I’m building!https://twitter.com/mattxcurtis/status/1196937009551462400?s=21 …

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        As my work on Hyphen 2 kicks into high gear, I'm starting a running thread journaling the design and development process! I'm hoping it'll serve as the basis for a future case study, shorten my feedback loops and give me an opportunity to think out loud. 💭 pic.twitter.com/1sJbxd6Od0
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