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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Replying to @Meaningness @Malcolm_Ocean and
Nelson does reasonably well in Literary Machines (multiple paths) and gives instructions on how to read at the beginning
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Replying to @JimmyRis @Meaningness and
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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Replying to @JimmyRis @Malcolm_Ocean and
I think I may somehow have failed to read that!
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Replying to @Meaningness @Malcolm_Ocean and
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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Replying to @JimmyRis @Meaningness and
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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Replying to @JimmyRis @Malcolm_Ocean and
Wow, thanks, I’d really appreciate that—they’re ~$200 used on Amazon!
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Replying to @Meaningness @Malcolm_Ocean and
My pleasure :) Yeah... they’re hard to come by for the time being unfortunately, trying to fix that
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Replying to @JimmyRis @Meaningness and
Digitize a copy? I used http://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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Must spread this samizdat... I haven’t read it either!
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Replying to @andy_matuschak @Malcolm_Ocean and
Santa may have set one aside for you as well... I’ll check with the Chief Elf
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Replying to @JimmyRis @andy_matuschak and
Heya! Wanna DM me? Got a present for ya
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