BGB said:
> by contrast, a wiki is often a much better experience, and similarly allows
> the option of being presented sequentially (say, by daisy chaining articles
> together, and/or writing huge articles). granted, it could be made maybe a
> little better with a good WYSIWYG style editing system.
>
> potentially,  maybe, something like MediaWiki or similar could be used for
> fiction and similar.

Take a look at both Wikibooks and the booki project (which publishes
flossmanuals.net)

> a mystery is why, say, LCD panels can't be made to better utilize ambient
> light

Why isn't the wonderful dual-mode screen used by the OLPC XO more widely used?

> the one area I think printed books currently have a slight advantage (vs
> things like Adobe Reader and similar), is the ability to quickly place
> custom bookmarks (would be nice if one could define user-defined bookmarks
> in Reader, and if it would remember wherever was the last place the user was
> looking in a given PDF).

Apple Preview, and perhaps other PDF readers, already do this.

Have fun! David
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