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It should be possible to link to individual pages. ( So that one can show where the opening line of Neuromancer or the first paragraph of The Library of Babel i
by yk 12y ago
It should be possible to link to individual pages. ( So that one can show where the opening line of Neuromancer or the first paragraph of The Library of Babel is located.) But otherwise really cool.
- recursive 12y agoOn average, the link would be at least as long as the book.
- jonotrain 12y agoI think yk's idea is excellent - I'm actually working on it right now. You're correct that the book locations need to be about as long as the book to provide sufficient unique values - but it isn't humanly or temporally possible for people to bookmark that many pages - so a separate index of bookmarked pages could use much shorter urls.
- anotheryou 12y agoand please make the bookmarks unguessable and private. I want to sent moderately private letters, that where already "written" in the library :)
- jonotrain 12y agoI'm glad you suggested that - will do.
- anotheryou 11y agoletters where sent :) I'm still amazed at the project, thank you
- octatoan 12y agoNot if you let the first linked page be site.com/1, the next one site.com/2 and so on, I think.
- Tinyyy 12y agoHow does that even make sense? Taking a lower base will only require more characters.
- recursive 12y agoYes, even then. Sure "1" and "2" are pretty short. And even "57834573495879436129386943" is pretty short. But the average link would have so many digits, I couldn't post it in this comment.
- jonotrain 12y agoThe bookmarks would only need to map to the book locations - you would only need sufficient values for the number of bookmarked pages, not the entire range of possibilities.
- jonotrain 12y agoI created a bookmarkable link on the book pages - and you can title them yourself, so they will remain private if you like. Thank you for the excellent suggestion.