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    1. 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. 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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      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. Allison Arieff‏Verified account @aarieff 4 Jun 2018
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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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        1. (((Just a Flâneur))) {#SociallyDistancedAF 🙃}‏ @EnlightFundy 4 Jun 2018
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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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        1. Scott Hartley‏Verified account @scottehartley 6 Jun 2018
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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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        1. Kevin Lydon‏ @betdaqsports 6 Jun 2018
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          yep..please god ..someday a book will be able to make me a soy latte

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        1. Richard Robinson‏ @BulletRobinson 6 Jun 2018
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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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        2. Toffee‏ @T_MECE 6 Jun 2018
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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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        3. Toffee‏ @T_MECE 6 Jun 2018
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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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