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    Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc 3 Jun 2018
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    I'd pay a *lot* more for books if I could see the highlights, annotations, and marginalia of friends or people I follow. If books really do matter in the world, feels like we'd benefit from a lot more reading technology. Getting books onto the screen was a good *first* step.

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      2. Eugene Wei‏ @eugenewei 3 Jun 2018
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        I agree. Was the subject of my only Medium article from back in the day: https://medium.com/@eugenewei/612e60bec97c …

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      3. Damien Smith‏ @indysmith 3 Jun 2018
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        Replying to @eugenewei @patrickc @michael_nielsen

        Why not Ratuken (which owns Kobo)? Basing it on epub would make it more extensible as well.

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      2. Allison Arieff‏Verified account @aarieff 4 Jun 2018
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        Whether or not books matter isn't in question (or shouldn't be). A book is a perfect example of human-centered design; really doesn't "need" tech at all to be effective. (And personally I find that highlighting to be the most annoying feature of e-books.)

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      3. Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc 4 Jun 2018
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        The question was rhetorical; of course they matter a lot. But books as they exist today are a technology. An amazing technology. And I doubt we've yet perfected them... we invented indexes, e-books, paperbacks over the years. Further improvement seems possible.

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      2. Lan Xuezhao‏ @xuezhao 3 Jun 2018
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        WeChat already has a seperately app does exactly this, plus a lot more features. It’s been around for a while.

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      3. Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc 3 Jun 2018
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        Replying to @xuezhao

        Neat! Is there anything written about it in English?

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      2. Flo Crivello‏ @Altimor 3 Jun 2018
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        Yes, Kindle changed the way we read books and then… stopped there. I want social highlights, notes, flash cards, and fractal reading (each chapter summarized in 1 paragraph, expandable on several levels if you want to dig deeper).

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      3. Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc 3 Jun 2018
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        Replying to @Altimor

        Exactly.

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      2. Avi Bryant‏ @avibryant 3 Jun 2018
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        Relatedly, if this existed, I would start to actually highlight, annotate, and write in the margins of books. (In much the same way that I never faved tweets until faves notified the tweet authors, at which point I started doing it all the time.)

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      3. Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc 3 Jun 2018
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        Replying to @avibryant

        Revshare with the annotators!

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