Andyʼs working notes

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Mass adoption of written media with novel cognitive supports requires mass adoption of reading on computers

Unfortunately, Reading texts on computers is unpleasant. Maybe that’s part of why E-reading popularity sharply trails all book-reading.

There are challenges on the authoring side, too:

  • Mass adoption of the mnemonic medium seems to require mass adoption of web publishing.
  • Authors may make more from print sales (when also selling ebooks)

Alternately, one might consider Methods for bringing dynamic mediums to physical reading contexts