Hundreds of thousands of people read novels on Instagram
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Hundreds of thousands of people read novels on Instagram
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#2These look very cool! They clearly put a lot of thought into the design, and it's always nice to see these sorts of novel efforts to encourage reading.
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#3I'm intrigued, and yet horrified by the amount of bandwidth that all of these images must be consuming.
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#4I'm intrigued, and yet horrified by the amount of bandwidth that all of these images must be consuming.
Here is the required negative hacker news comment. Thanks for stepping up!
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#5Here's [1] NYPL's website for the project.
The site details out the motivation behind the project, provides a list of novels released and to come. It is also loaded with eye candy from the gorgeous animation and design examples.
Not to turn the subject to IP but I think this is a wonderful example of what can be done with the public domain:
>Each book so far in the Insta Novels Collection has come from the public domain.
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#6Really excited about these kind of steps taken towards multimedia literature and digitalization of it. For quite some time, school textbooks and literature has been brought to touch screen devices or otherwise digitalized on other devices as-is - pages with text as we have known it for long time. Modern tech could enable much more deeper and interactable content for both studies and leisure reading.
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#7I'm intrigued, and yet horrified by the amount of bandwidth that all of these images must be consuming.
Don't worry; just think that in the time spent reading a single page/picture, the user is not watch another shaky (ie, hard to compress) HD video, which are common on IG.
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#8I'm intrigued, and yet horrified by the amount of bandwidth that all of these images must be consuming.
You're not going to believe this but sometimes I stream video and go to sleep before it's finished. It's 4k too. I don't even give a fuck. An hour of wasted bandwidth, not even half a shit given.
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#9It is likely that if you did an experiment that compared retention and understanding of reading with the real books and these Instagram Stories, the readers of real books would trounce the Instagram readers. I suppose that something is better than nothing but at a certain point, I also wonder, what is the point of doing this? I wonder how many Instagram readers will drop their habits and read more? I also wonder how many of these readers will finish the books? I didn't see that information presented in the article.
Re: Hundreds of thousands of people read novels on Instagram
#10Really excited about these kind of steps taken towards multimedia literature and digitalization of it. For quite some time, school textbooks and literature has been brought to touch screen devices or otherwise digitalized on other devices as-is - pages with text as we have known it for long time. Modern tech could enable much more deeper and interactable content for both studies and leisure reading.
and yet in my experience most HNers and similar tech communities want all docs in plain text, tex, or very simple markdown
suggest that Wikipedia would be better if it's physics articles had interactive simulations or that stack overflow's failed docs initiative should make room for working examples and get downvoted into oblivion