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too long for a tweet

a problem with hypertext as a media is that pieces of it tend to disappear. linear documents may disappear but by in large, when present, they remain whole.
this is a problem for libraries and for commercial publishers. for content creators and consumers, is it a boon?

More books about books

The book I’m almost finished with now is Proust and the squid: the story and science of the reading brain by Maryanne Wolf. Wolf is a neuroscientist who studies dyslexia, which she says is catch-all phrase for problems learning to read.
I’m not terribly impressed with it - the opening chapters make weak and culturally [...]