One big roadblock for environments hoping to improve on the book with fancy interactive elements: they all require reading on a screen! And reading on a screen is almost universally terrible!
I've been getting increasingly worried about this—seems like a serious threat! (con't)
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For instance, expert readers generally read non-linearly, but object permanence issues really inhibit that on screens. (notes.andymatuschak.org/Maintaining_mu, notes.andymatuschak.org/Continuous-scr)
In many cases (eg. on e-readers) *performance* issues inhibit expert reading! Wild! (notes.andymatuschak.org/Poor_performan)
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(These links aren’t working for me, btw—seems like the whole site doesn’t load for me? Says an unexpected error has occurred)
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Hm, maybe some momentary downtime? It's up for me at the moment. If it's still down for you, could you tell me what your device/browser are?
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Still down—Twitter browser on iOS iPhone 5 or so, same error when I open in Safari. Opens but doesn’t load fully on my Windows laptop using Chrome.
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Fascinating! Thank you, will investigate.