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Boomkarking a physical book is super easy and a lot more intuitive and easy to use than an eBook version. Some books come with one or two strings built in that

Boomkarking a physical book is super easy and a lot more intuitive and easy to use than an eBook version. Some books come with one or two strings built in that can be used. Mostly to track where you are in the book right now, and the other one for something you find important. Then there are thousands of different bookmarks you can buy as many as you need. You also have adhesive-colored tabs you can use to mark whatever you like. You can also bend the top or bottom corner of a page, Or use scissors and remove the corner entirely. Bookmarking technology for real life books is mature and easy to use. Some books make it easy to write down here you are externally. Page Numbers, or like the Bible with several numeric markings that makes finding a quote fast and easy. Books can come with indexes that make finding things easier. To browse through index entries can also provide interesting insight. It is super easy to annotate. You can use a pencil and things can be erased if you desire. You can use pens You can use highlighters, You can use stickers, You can write the margins You can attach post it notes You can attach documents (pressed between the existing pages. The way you do bookmark, highlight, and scribble can be of tremendous value for the next reader. (Or it can be flat out annoying). It is also easy these days to take a photo of a page with your cellphone and do whatever you want. then you can if you so wish print and glue it in, or insert a page or whatever into the book. A book can have very rich illustrations and graphics. If you do need to reference rich media you can print a QR code in the relevant part of the book so people can quickly pull up the video or whatever there is a need for.

eviks 3y ago
You're describing a bunch of variations is a primitive unsearchable design, there is no value in that sticky richness related to the issue I've described How do you group all the bookmarks that are related to a given topic? Use a specific bookmark color? How do you then change the whole group? Or, physically go to every single bookmark and change it to a different color? How would you list all paragraphs you've bookmarked together (let's say you want to track a story of a given character interaction with another one)? How do you add longer custom text to the bookmarks? Physical ones don't have enough space for your questions that you'd later like to go back to to find answers to I mean even in the most trivial case- using a string to track where you are: why is this even needed when a computer can do the tracking automatically? Also, that string only tracks 2 pages, not the exact point in text Indexes are also not great, they're slow to use, usually incomplete (so any primitive full-text search would beat them), and uneditable by the reader, so don't reflect "Take a picture" is a laughable suggestion, why would I also need to waste time to OCR "to do whatever I need" when I could start with a better format in the first place?

eviks 3y ago

You're describing a bunch of variations is a primitive unsearchable design, there is no value in that sticky richness related to the issue I've described How do you group all the bookmarks that are related to a given topic? Use a specific bookmark color? How do you then change the whole group? Or, physically go to every single bookmark and change it to a different color? How would you list all paragraphs you've bookmarked together (let's say you want to track a story of a given character interaction with another one)? How do you add longer custom text to the bookmarks? Physical ones don't have enough space for your questions that you'd later like to go back to to find answers to I mean even in the most trivial case- using a string to track where you are: why is this even needed when a computer can do the tracking automatically? Also, that string only tracks 2 pages, not the exact point in text Indexes are also not great, they're slow to use, usually incomplete (so any primitive full-text search would beat them), and uneditable by the reader, so don't reflect "Take a picture" is a laughable suggestion, why would I also need to waste time to OCR "to do whatever I need" when I could start with a better format in the first place?