Given that Kindle is the most innovative thing to happen to reading in the 21st century, I’m less excited that they are trying to make the Kindle… more like a book. (We were promised flying cars, I just want innovation in reading!)https://t.co/pWUQiTDwNo

— Tommy Collison (@tommycollison) May 6, 2021

Pair with: https://andymatuschak.org/books/

Books are easy to take for granted. Not any specific book, I mean: the form of a book. Paper or pixels—it hardly matters. Words in lines on pages in chapters. And at least for non-fiction books, one implied assumption at the foundation: people absorb knowledge by reading sentences. This last idea so invisibly defines the medium that it’s hard not to take for granted, which is a shame because, as we’ll see, it’s quite mistaken.