The Condition of Music
summary
Argues that books’ value is temporal not tactile, and offers concrete tools: a working bookkeeper SMS/Twitter tracker that let someone annotate Hegel by text, an API that spawned a page-count/time achievement app, and modern readmill activity graphs that show blue spikes of readers and a green line for session length. Proposes openbookmarks.org so bookmarks and highlights export and migrate, stressing data portability, measurable reading sessions, and publishers’ need to integrate with these live reading signals.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:55The Reading Experience
- 7:23The Paper Book
- 9:38Reading Tracking
- 12:44Open Bookmarks
- 14:15Questions
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