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• Koshkin 9y ago
  Sure, let me elaborate. We are already quite far into the 21-st century, and there are several directions in which the "large format" publishing (i.e. that of monographs, teaching materials, etc.) should be going by now instead of sticking with the "old ways": - abandoning the limitations specific to the old tech; the authors tend to show the reflexive desire to be minimalist in their exposition which results in a coverage of the topic that is sorely incomplete and/or unclear; - transitioning to new ways of information delivery, the ones that are only possible with the use of electronic devices; instead of bundling massive amounts of the material into a single package (a book), authors could follow the example set by Wikipedia, say, and create a much more fine-grained, yet naturally loose, collection of "articles" each being unlimited in size and therefore (unlike what we see in Wikipedia) detailed, thorough and thus accessible to anyone willing to spend time studying them; - using completely new ways of presenting information afforded by computers, which, incidentally, would be nothing new as an idea, because the thought of computer-based education/training has been around since at least 1960s; yet, it is still waiting for its practical application on an adequate scale; from this perspective, teaching methods based on absorbing text - whether in printed or even electronic form - can truly be seen as backwards as thinking of a car as being merely a "horseless carriage". This process is not happening in any perceptible manner, and I wonder what's holding us back to the degree it still is.