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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Yes, definitely with you. The main part I don't understand how to manage is licensing for books or journal articles that aren't free. In an ideal world, we'd have some sort of patreon economy where authors would get supported via <..details..> & their works could be open, but...
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Because basically no book publisher wants their property to be platform-agnostically remixable. But maybe somehow we'll go through a Napster→iTunes transition that will force some other business model to emerge... then a more YouTube-like phase. Or something.
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Btw I love the layers of your thing and how they appear overlaid, but I don't know how to pop one off the top of the stack. Not seeing an x button and the esc key doesn't do anything.
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Back button (either through the browser or with a two-finger side-swipe gesture)
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is mostly about software but I think if I had some millions in seed capital and more free time I could design & manufacture & sell a device that'd afford a bunch of cool workflows that kindle/kobo don't.
(not as confident about costs/sales as with a software co)