There are surprisingly few serious "web books"! I don't even mean "fancy new media books"—just: written primarily for and read primarily on the web.
Collecting some favorites. Please reply with yours!
* Butterick's Practical Typography: https://practicaltypography.com
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Then there's the monetization problem. Lots of people have web sites which vend a PDF, but that's different. More fundamentally, maybe one barrier is just that reading long-form texts—especially book-length texts—on screens is pretty miserable!https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Reading_texts_on_computers_is_unpleasant …
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https://twitter.com/mdiep/status/1246941499734085632 … (Aside: Why so much programming material? It’s a striking sign that publishing a web book still has significant technical barriers)
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These guides look awfully polished (haven’t read any yet myself!):https://twitter.com/fadeke_adegbuyi/status/1246941902869426176 …
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I didn’t know that this lovingly crafted and very personal book on the philosophy of design was available as a web book:https://twitter.com/zindlurb/status/1246941939699568642 …
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Highly recommended on both counts:https://twitter.com/litonico_/status/1246943012254408706 …
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This is the true winning answer. This book was *so important* to me growing up. Reading it was the first time I realized that programming didn’t have to be utilitarian; it could be expressive. It’s dead but archived here: https://poignant.guide https://twitter.com/mcclure111/status/1246946406608310273 …
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Yet more great recommendations from Ryan:https://twitter.com/context_ing/status/1246946641703133184 …
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