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Wonder, blunder, salve, solve! Working on tools that expand what people can think and do. Past: led R&D @KhanAcademy; helped build iOS @Apple.

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    1. Andy Matuschak‏Verified account @andy_matuschak Apr 5
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      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  (more 👇)

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      * Neural Networks and Deep Learning: http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com  * How to Design Programs (2nd ed): https://htdp.org  * Circles, Sines, and Signals: https://jackschaedler.github.io/circles-sines-signals/ … * Meaningless (is it a book?!):https://meaningness.com 

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    3. Andy Matuschak‏Verified account @andy_matuschak Apr 5
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      Then there's the class of "web serializations"—books which started as a series of blog posts, or online fan fiction chapters, which were later serialized into "real" books. Those often lose something in book form, since they weren't "designed in one piece," lack a coherent whole.

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    4. Andy Matuschak‏Verified account @andy_matuschak Apr 5
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      Why aren't there more? Well, if you *want* to write a web-first book—again, not even a fancy new-media thing, just a book whose text is online—there's no quick consumer-grade solution. Spin up Ghost and write some HTML, I guess. Or elaborately theme a Wordpress?

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    5. Andy Matuschak‏Verified account @andy_matuschak Apr 5
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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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    6. Geoff‏ @_TheGeoff Apr 5
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      I thought about this a lot whilst working as a bookseller and teaching myself webdev. I kept coming up with ideas, only to realise they'd been done in one form or another. ✅ Hyperlink CYOA ✅ Video cut screens ✅ Dynamic backgrounds Etc etc...

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    7. Geoff‏ @_TheGeoff Apr 5
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      ...and the problem with trying to define a "web book" beyond saying "a book readable on the internet" is that you inevitably exclude a bunch of potential techniques by omission. Depends on the story, and the audience.

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      Andy Matuschak‏Verified account @andy_matuschak Apr 5
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      Definitely. I’m very open in what I’d consider in this bucket! Just: a long-form, primarily textual mass medium you engage with via a web browser. Any good examples for you in that broader sphere?

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        2. Geoff‏ @_TheGeoff Apr 5
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          Beyond the diary format? (Pepys, Frank, Weir etc) Not that I can think of, to be honest. Maybe the xkcd What If? series, but that's a string of articles akin to a diary. Maybe the limitations of the display (and inbuilt distractions) limit our tolerance to snippets?

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          Hell, until a hundred years ago the big UK authors like Dickens and Walter Scott tended to be serialised by the chapter before the books came out for the serious fans. Maybe the cheap paperback was temporary, popular aberation in the gap between mass production and mass media?

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          A WikiEbook http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/WikiEbook 

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        2. Erik Schön‏ @erik_schon May 16
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          @Medium?

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          E.g. how my weekly medium posts/"chapters" during Q1'19 evolved into an "ebook" Q1'20:http://yokosopress.se 

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