I’m slightly confused as to why this is useful—LessWrong itself seems like it’s already the Sequences in better-than-ebook form. Is the potential ereader appeal big enough to justify the quality loss that will come from porting the Sequences over to this format?
‘Yes’ is a perfectly valid answer to that question, I’m just curious as to what went in to that decision.
Yeah, I find that I tailor anything I write extremely specifically for the medium in question. For instance, changing the screen width might make my line breaks look bad, cause me to want to put paragraphs in different places, alter the way I use hyperlinks, etc. etc.
That aside, there’s also the obvious “ereaders don’t have a comments section” issue.
I’m slightly confused as to why this is useful—LessWrong itself seems like it’s already the Sequences in better-than-ebook form. Is the potential ereader appeal big enough to justify the quality loss that will come from porting the Sequences over to this format?
‘Yes’ is a perfectly valid answer to that question, I’m just curious as to what went in to that decision.
The main appeal with having an ebook is the ability to read it on an e-reader such as a Kindle.
How so?
The sequences weren’t (to the best of my knowledge) written to be read on an ereader, and something is almost always lost in translation.
As in the formatting? Can you explain what you mean by quality loss, and what would be getting lost in the “translation”?
Yeah, I find that I tailor anything I write extremely specifically for the medium in question. For instance, changing the screen width might make my line breaks look bad, cause me to want to put paragraphs in different places, alter the way I use hyperlinks, etc. etc.
That aside, there’s also the obvious “ereaders don’t have a comments section” issue.