Where are the bookstores, though? This is not rhetorical, I can count quality bookstores on my fingertips (e.g. Boston area has zero good ones). The quirky ones are understandably small, the larger ones usually carry books with the depth of Pinker or Gladwell or Harari.
I like libraries and book stores. Despite its richness, the web fails at making concrete the availability of its contents in the way a physical library does -- it fails at being an actual place.
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I wrote another comment about the bookstore scene (especially the few truly remarkable ones), but removed it thinking what is the point.
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Also when I go the the library people aren’t typically shouting politically charged insults at me.
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the controversial exception would be Napster for music/comedy as it featured implicit recommendation, and the benign exception are the small communities around fiction writing
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publishing software may have the most experimentation. In the internet era it went from shrink wrapped products in a store, to freeware/shareware/demo, to subscriptions. Along the way there has been open source, DRM, closed hardware, etc. Will a rights-based model endure?
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I feel the same way about e-books and reading papers through computers.
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I totally agree with you
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I thought I was alone in this one.
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My vague feeling is that most web tech fundamentally fails because web is effectively online for consumer (they watch us do stuff) and offline for consumer (we can not see the entirety of what is being shown). With books and offline programs there is symmetry. Everything is there
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