alexvermeer comments on Looking for alteration suggestions for the official Sequences ebook - Less Wrong

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Comment author: alexvermeer 26 October 2012 06:24:16PM 0 points [-]

LessWrong itself seems like it's already the Sequences in better-than-ebook form.

The main appeal with having an ebook is the ability to read it on an e-reader such as a Kindle.

quality loss

How so?

Comment author: katydee 28 October 2012 07:17:01AM *  0 points [-]

The sequences weren't (to the best of my knowledge) written to be read on an ereader, and something is almost always lost in translation.

Comment author: Kawoomba 28 October 2012 08:02:27AM 0 points [-]

something is almost always lost in translation

As in the formatting? Can you explain what you mean by quality loss, and what would be getting lost in the "translation"?

Comment author: katydee 28 October 2012 01:00:06PM 0 points [-]

Yeah, I find that I tailor anything I write extremely specifically for the medium in question. For instance, changing the screen width might make my line breaks look bad, cause me to want to put paragraphs in different places, alter the way I use hyperlinks, etc. etc.

That aside, there's also the obvious "ereaders don't have a comments section" issue.