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May I Quote?

25 points by samclemens 5y ago

drewcoo 5y ago
> The idea is to have, tucked in the back matter, elaborate indexes that allow users to find whatever topic they’re looking for — by flipping pages back and forth. Yes, that's a huge advantage tomes have over scrolls, for example. It was a big breakthrough! > Perhaps hyperlinked electronic versions will soon make things easier. Or this thing called "search," maybe. I don't think the author has done any study on or deep pondering abuot different media, how they came about or how they work.
- bryanrasmussen 5y ago
  I guess a book search that used indexes as a type of pagerank would be useful.
- deleted 5y ago
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minroot 5y ago
Why are you hiding parts of article text with a subscription form saying "Want LARB in your inbox?". I want to read your thing first, without being disturbed.
- avnigo 5y ago
  To be fair, that was on the side of the article for me, so probably just not very flexible CSS. However, I never understand popups/modal windows on top of articles I'm actively trying to read, spawning after I scroll down the page. If anything, it will rather irritate me for the interruption rather than succeed in upselling me to subscribing to a newsletter from a website I've only just visited for the first time.
FabHK 5y ago
BTW, if you like quotes, the Quote Investigator is an entertaining read and a good reference for many (often misattributed) quotes: https://quoteinvestigator.com https://quoteinvestigator.com
- everybodyknows 5y ago
  Tried to find Orwell's great quote "... lessons of history." Got wildly wrong answers, then selecting page "2", on iPad, redirected to install some app.
bitxbitxbitcoin 5y ago
One of my favorite books in my collection is a decades old Thesaurus of Quotations which is organized by topic.
conradludgate 5y ago
Is the cookie consent form on this website legal? I have no way to non-consent while still reading the content, which I believe is my right
- dredmorbius 5y ago
  Technical solution: uMatrix: deny all cookies from domain. The legal problem remains, and is significant.

25 points by samclemens 5y ago

> The idea is to have, tucked in the back matter, elaborate indexes that allow users to find whatever topic they’re looking for — by flipping pages back and forth. Yes, that's a huge advantage tomes have over scrolls, for example. It was a big breakthrough! > Perhaps hyperlinked electronic versions will soon make things easier. Or this thing called "search," maybe. I don't think the author has done any study on or deep pondering abuot different media, how they came about or how they work.

bryanrasmussen 5y ago
I guess a book search that used indexes as a type of pagerank would be useful.
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minroot 5y ago

Why are you hiding parts of article text with a subscription form saying "Want LARB in your inbox?". I want to read your thing first, without being disturbed.

avnigo 5y ago
To be fair, that was on the side of the article for me, so probably just not very flexible CSS. However, I never understand popups/modal windows on top of articles I'm actively trying to read, spawning after I scroll down the page. If anything, it will rather irritate me for the interruption rather than succeed in upselling me to subscribing to a newsletter from a website I've only just visited for the first time.

FabHK 5y ago

BTW, if you like quotes, the Quote Investigator is an entertaining read and a good reference for many (often misattributed) quotes: https://quoteinvestigator.com https://quoteinvestigator.com

everybodyknows 5y ago
Tried to find Orwell's great quote "... lessons of history." Got wildly wrong answers, then selecting page "2", on iPad, redirected to install some app.

bitxbitxbitcoin 5y ago

One of my favorite books in my collection is a decades old Thesaurus of Quotations which is organized by topic.

conradludgate 5y ago

Is the cookie consent form on this website legal? I have no way to non-consent while still reading the content, which I believe is my right

dredmorbius 5y ago
Technical solution: uMatrix: deny all cookies from domain. The legal problem remains, and is significant.