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There are surprisingly few serious "web books"! I don& #39;t even mean "fancy new media books"—just: written primarily for and read primarily on the web.
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* Butterick& #39;s Practical Typography: https://practicaltypography.com"> https://practicaltypography.com
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* Butterick& #39;s Practical Typography: https://practicaltypography.com"> https://practicaltypography.com
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* Neural Networks and Deep Learning: http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com"> http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com
* How to Design Programs (2nd ed): https://htdp.org"> https://htdp.org
* Circles, Sines, and Signals: https://jackschaedler.github.io/circles-sines-signals/
*">https://jackschaedler.github.io/circles-s... Meaningless (is it a book?!): https://meaningness.com"> https://meaningness.com
* How to Design Programs (2nd ed): https://htdp.org"> https://htdp.org
* Circles, Sines, and Signals: https://jackschaedler.github.io/circles-sines-signals/
*">https://jackschaedler.github.io/circles-s... Meaningless (is it a book?!): https://meaningness.com"> https://meaningness.com
Then there& #39;s the class of "web serializations"—books which started as a series of blog posts, or online fan fiction chapters, which were later serialized into "real" books. Those often lose something in book form, since they weren& #39;t "designed in one piece," lack a coherent whole.
Why aren& #39;t there more? Well, if you *want* to write a web-first book—again, not even a fancy new-media thing, just a book whose text is online—there& #39;s no quick consumer-grade solution. Spin up Ghost and write some HTML, I guess. Or elaborately theme a Wordpress?
Then there& #39;s the monetization problem. Lots of people have web sites which vend a PDF, but that& #39;s different.
More fundamentally, maybe one barrier is just that reading long-form texts—especially book-length texts—on screens is pretty miserable! https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Reading_texts_on_computers_is_unpleasant">https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Reading_t...
More fundamentally, maybe one barrier is just that reading long-form texts—especially book-length texts—on screens is pretty miserable! https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Reading_texts_on_computers_is_unpleasant">https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Reading_t...
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(Aside:">https://twitter.com/mdiep/sta... Why so much programming material? It’s a striking sign that publishing a web book still has significant technical barriers)
(Aside:">https://twitter.com/mdiep/sta... Why so much programming material? It’s a striking sign that publishing a web book still has significant technical barriers)
These guides look awfully polished (haven’t read any yet myself!): https://twitter.com/fadeke_adegbuyi/status/1246941902869426176">https://twitter.com/fadeke_ad...
I didn’t know that this lovingly crafted and very personal book on the philosophy of design was available as a web book: https://twitter.com/zindlurb/status/1246941939699568642">https://twitter.com/zindlurb/...
Highly recommended on both counts: https://twitter.com/litonico_/status/1246943012254408706">https://twitter.com/litonico_...
This is the true winning answer. This book was *so important* to me growing up. Reading it was the first time I realized that programming didn’t have to be utilitarian; it could be expressive. It’s dead but archived here: https://poignant.guide"> https://poignant.guide https://twitter.com/mcclure111/status/1246946406608310273">https://twitter.com/mcclure11...
This web book is quite lovingly crafted: https://resilientwebdesign.com"> https://resilientwebdesign.com
