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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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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Is there an example, however primitive, of FRACTAL READING that you can point me to? I’ve been playing with it for my DEEP READING: I recreate articles in @ScrivenerApp, a fractal writing app. I give (nested) titles to paragraphs, highlight, add notes & synopsis.. cc @fortelabs
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Thinking of examples of fractal reading I found 2, sort of: Edwin Cannan’s 1904 edition of The Wealth of Nations has flowing “marginal summaries” on each paragraph as part of its critical apparatus. Popular editions of laws sometimes have thematic keywords next to paragraphs.
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Replying to @elzr @Altimor @patrickc @ScrivenerApp
I suggest looking at texts like the library edition of the complete works of John Ruskin. Its diverse text summarisation weapons include: - ToC which works as high-level summary - numbered paragraphs - paragraph summaries lancaster.ac.uk/the-ruskin/t…

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