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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I fear what's lost here is the notion that a huge purpose that books serve is for lack of a better term, 'humanity enrichment.' Can't turn that into an algorithm but it is perhaps the most important characteristic of the book...it's not format-dependent...
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This reminds me of a scene from "Max Headroom" where Max offers a book to some punked-out girl. Her: "What's a 'book'?" Max: "A paper-based non-volatile storage technology." Her: "Stuff it!"
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The book was one of the early versions of external cognitive mind we so fear now with AI and ML... what will it do to our memory? What will all the Homeric scholars do after oratory dies away? I should think it led to massive displacement and fears of memory automation
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yep..please god ..someday a book will be able to make me a soy latte
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Books are the perfect technology of humans brains. Their tactile nature enhances the amount of date we absorb
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I don't think there's one perfect format. For me, a regular physical paperback copy (or hardback that can easily be held in one hand) is the perfect book. I don't want to read my books from a screen.
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So it's not so much about perfecting books as about developing alternatives for more different types of reading habits and preferences.
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