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: practicaltypography.com
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I loved this one. Say, I'm curious for your gut take: even online, this book “feels” like it was written “for print” to me. I don’t know why! What do you think?
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I think because the web version was designed specifically for the web it feels at home on the web. But, I'm likely a little biased since I read the web version first.
it's the typography. no extra line break between paragraphs and indented first word at the start of a paragraph. extremely non-webby