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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Of course there are on-screen features which enhance expert reading… but on balance, I'm pretty reliably a worse reader when reading on screens.
Not thrilled about needing to solve those problems in addition to all the tools-for-thought ones! What do you find promising here?
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IMO The only one that seems to really grasp and solve this problem is liquidtext
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this is nice. don't have an iPad, but will check out their videos. Using Polar Bookshelf(getpolarized.io) right now, it has Anki integration too. does liquidtext have Anki integration of any sort?
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I've tried it. I'd characterize it as trying to solve different problems from these. LiquidText doesn't have Anki integration; it's a siloed environment etc. Good inspiration though.