Question regarding this: notes.andymatuschak.org/A_reading_inbo – "zero-friction to view the reading corresponding to an inbox item" – What does "Reading" mean here? The article, website, etc itself? Isn't that pretty frictionless with services like Instapaper?
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Yes, Instapaper makes that reasonably frictionless for web pages. Long PDFs are somewhat harder to get right. EPUBs / books are quite painful. To your question on inbox overflow:
One related thing I've noticed: because products like Instapaper make it much easier to contend with web pages than other media forms, that pushes me to read more web pages. But the outside view is that my priorities should generally be books > PDFs > web pages. Bad inversion.
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Apart from the fact that e-readers should have evolved much more, that I want apps for Kindle etc, reading books on Kindle and importing highlights is not too bad.
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What would be a less painful user experience for EPUBs / books? Making their display in lists and other pages specific to the metadata of books?
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EPUB reader UX is an unacceptable shitshow in a thousand ways, but very tactically here: I can click a table cell in Instapaper and instantly see the article. I can't click a table cell corresponding to an EPUB and instantly see that book, opened to the page where I left off.
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