Yes I’d like to have affordances for multiple *recommended* nav paths, in addition to allowing free movement. The Design Unbound thing is a first cut at that, but much more should be possible
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Nelson does reasonably well in Literary Machines (multiple paths) and gives instructions on how to read at the beginning
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multiple Chapters 1,2,4,5 etc, and one meaty chapter 3 through which pass multiple times
he’s put summaries at the top of each page so you don’t have to completely reread as you pass through again and again, a nice touch
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I think I may somehow have failed to read that!
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It’s the primary book on Project Xanadu itself, philosophy and implementation details. Some of the meat doesn’t necessarily hold up because so much changed about the web and computers, but it’s still gold
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I’ll make you a late Christmas gift of a copy, I’m back in SF Jan 2 and I’ll get one from Ted :)
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Wow, thanks, I’d really appreciate that—they’re ~$200 used on Amazon!
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My pleasure :)
Yeah... they’re hard to come by for the time being unfortunately, trying to fix that
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Digitize a copy? I used 1dollarscan.com and it worked great!
(Blah blah disclaimer about copyright; I'm going to recommend this without having yet checked whether the book is in the public domain. Doughnt brayk loz 😉🤫 )
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VERY private domain 😆
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Must spread this samizdat... I haven’t read it either!
Santa may have set one aside for you as well... I’ll check with the Chief Elf
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Heya! Wanna DM me? Got a present for ya 💫