JoshuaZ comments on Back to the Basics of Rationality - Less Wrong

80 Post author: lukeprog 11 January 2011 07:05AM

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 11 January 2011 01:56:17PM 7 points [-]

I will be summarizing some of my favorite university textbooks into 50-page blog posts.

I'm not sure this is in general a very good approach. Many people won't want to read something that is 50 pages long. But if one splits the same content up into 4 or 5 posts it will appear to be much more readable.

Comment author: lukeprog 11 January 2011 05:04:34PM 6 points [-]

Perhaps, though many people prefer to scroll and search through a single page rather than having to jump across many pages. I use both formats on my site; I'm not sure which is better for my goals.

Comment author: fburnaby 11 January 2011 05:54:36PM 5 points [-]

Do you have significant traffic? Can you do some sort of A/B test using some analytics software?

Comment author: [deleted] 11 January 2011 11:06:13PM 4 points [-]

Multiple pages have the advantage of being easier to remember where one finished if one is forced to stop reading mid way.

Comment author: jfm 12 January 2011 06:31:35PM 0 points [-]

This is one of the significant advantages of an ebook reader over a web browser (at least the current crop of both products). Firefox is supposed to keep my place in long web pages, but darned if it doesn't forget half the time.