What would it be like? It's hard to imagine what the perfect book would be, and certainly, different types of text for different reasons would have different requirements. 

          But a few things are pretty certain, the perfect book would feature high readability, portability, connectivity & interactivity.

 

 

 

 

readability

By readability I mean going beyond legibility to make the visual displ

 

Shakespeare, an early evangelist of the World Wide Web, wrote in Othello: "There is magic in the web".

 

The web truly is magic, with books that connect to other books and documents and so on and the whole library is connected. 

 

The magic stems from a magic incantation: the hyperlink. Authors can, without much effort, write, invisibly, around any text, "when clicked upon, open such-and-such a doc

So the boiler is not working. There is a gas leak. It’s cold. Hyperwords is taking longer to get to 1.3. Drop of car for tire change. Walk in cold wind. But then I get to the new Starbucks and the doors open magically...  and the staff recognize me. Awww....

 

Nice lunch with Paul in Putney.

 

Back to Starbucks. The bathroom door looks like this, no lock:

 

 

Which looks nice. However, there is no

a sense of time

 

This weekend, I knew I'd leave San Francisco. I knew I'd hate leaving, leaving Patricia, leaving one dream of an enterprise. I knew we'd have dinner on the last night I was there. I knew we'd have American Kobe-Style beef at the cliff house. I'd it would be a great time, like always. I knew it was coming and I knew it wouldn't last. It was a great time. It is now yesterday.

 

My se

Not really, but I thought it would make a good blog post subject.

 

 

This is of course about not offending and about not being offended - to an extent.

 

 

There are now many billions of pages on the web.

 

Yet the web browser has not changed substantially since it first appeared 15 years ago. The only real additions would be tabbed browsing and a few other smaller things.

 

We still interact with the information on the web the same way - through hand made links.

 

Is it not time to go beyond hand-made links, and make all the text interactive?

 

Why ar

So, Hyperwords works well on text on the web, but it’s annoying on text when you are editing, it pops up when you want to select text for deletion etc.

 

But first, where we are coming from. We don’t have a lot of money or other resources. If we had solid funding, we’d go about this quite differently. This is not an excuse, but it’s important to understand that we do not have the same goals as some