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 I don't actually think that makes much sense. The Bible isn't any better authenticated or indexed by being on nostr 
 I reached out to a handful of calligraphers to re-make the bitcoin white-paper and the prices were outrageous, just bought more Bitcoin instead. But it woulda been a cool art piece to have.   LOTR style scrolls of the white paper.   Maybe when bitcoin moons. 
 Let's give the pope a nostr key and see if god can break it. 
 That's not to say it wouldn't still be cool 
 It’s a right of passage for every new protocol from Gutenberg to nostr. 
 Just a nostr native way to interact with the Bible with a few extra affordances that nostr can provide.

- organize and allow for meandering through a catalogue for background context
- engage in focused discussion on a specific segment of content
- group together & compare different versions & perspectives of the same topic
 
 These all seem like UX things, not so much nostr things. I mean, I see how you could do it on nostr, but for example NIP 32 would allow you to anchor your discussion in particular verses/translations without having to host the whole thing on relays 
 The problem we're trying to fix is that ctrl-f can only take you so far. Linear text, while conventional isn't the best way to organize and navigate knowledge. Sure, tacked on UX can help add functionality, but the data structure has an implication with its usage. By standardizing a data structure, any good UX is just pulling out functionality afforded by the structure instead of imposing functionality via UX. 

You interact at the level most meaningful for your task. You don't need bricks to analyze the architecture of a house or paint a wall, but if you want herringbone tiling for your kitchen you'll have to work at the level of tiles. Modular articles provide that level of grouping and introspection as an option, emphasis on option.

What pieces of existing libraries have you needed to use for your current client and why? What are they in service for, and how do they compose together to form your library? Are there other ideas that already exist that this implementation points toward, say in math and computer science? You point directly to the pieces of text involved in the synthesis of new knowledge, or you can just use the existing content verbatim as another note in your collage of notes.

Having these interactions on nostr allow for anyone to follow the trail of ideas that have been traversed and learn the same ideas for themselves. Something like that can't be afforded by a change in UX alone. 
 I just mean that the Bible already has this. Talking about the Bible on nostr creates new content that is atomic, but putting the Bible on nostr doesn't really add any granularity to the document.