Books need reinvention but I don’t think hypertext and stuff are relevant. Those are entirely different media. The post internet book will still be a serialized, ludic-immersive thing whose USP is making all the sequencing choices for the reader.
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A few classic books, if written today, would have been written as blogs. Like Les Miserables with its digressions from the main Jean Valjean — Javert story. I read an abridged edition as a teenager that left out all the side blog posts within the book. Never read the full thing.
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Trying to define “future book” in a way that I actually want to write it. Something deeply depressing about the idea of writing a traditional book in 2020. It anti-excites me. Also seems more honest since my reading of books has also changed. I now “read” more like a shredder.
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Yep, this is the limitation of one-size-fits-all summaries/reviews, and reason I stopped doing them. The largest part of context is the reader and where they're trying to go. Unless that interests you or coincides with you/your direction, limited value.https://twitter.com/schlagetown/status/1211711797864083456 …
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